Travel Blog

Ok so the plan has changed! Baños was clearly too beautiful and fun to leave and we are still here 2 days later than intended. But first a resume of what occurred since my last entry. On Thursday afternoon after the horse riding I decided to climb one of the big feckin mountains that surrounds us. Fi cleverly stayed at the hostel but I made it about two thirds of the way to the top. No mean feat if you saw the size of it! Once I arrived back we decided to hit the natural hot spring baths again. There´s just something amazing about them. After that we cooked up a kind of veggie pasta dish before heading out on the lash. The night was mental. Suffice to say we found ourselves on out balcony at 5am listening to my iPod and drinking Tequila and orange with Jose (Canadian), Sixto (an Ecuadorian) and some other random indigenous guy from the jungle who probably had never drunk before in his life. Just as the sun began to rise, Fi headed to bed but I was still thinking of the natural hot baths and so Jose, the jungle guy and me were off for a drunken dip despite written rules outside that state that intoxicated persons are not allowed enter. I finally crawled into bed at 8.30 am.

Friday 5th January
Fell out of bed at 2.30pm and we decided to climb up the same mountain I climbed yesterday but this time with bikes to cycle back down on. It was great! The hill was extremely steep and we were out of control for most of it. A fantastic experience but a bit annoying that it takes about 90 mins to get to the top and less than 10 mins to cruise to the bottom! After that we were back to the hostel where we learned from an English couple staying there that the owner was a bit miffed at us for being loud on the balcony last night. Oops! We apoligsed though and all seems to be good. Of course we can´t go more than 12 hours without a visit to the natural baths and so we went there AGAIN. After that we headed for Casa Hood, a real backpacker´s restaurant where you can get Mexican beans, brown rice, tomato and an avocado for less than $3. Extremely healthy and very financially viable. And man does it fill you up! While there we watched a movie (they have a movie on every night at 8pm) which was Spanish with English subtitles. It was completely bizzare about forbidden love between a man and the family cook. All sorts of morally wrong relationships and actions ensue and it ends with the man randomly dying in the middle of an orgy and the girl taking her life Romeo and Juliet style. After that we were out on the tear again but not so mad as last night as we really have to start making our way south towards Cuzco in Peru tomorrow. Buenos Noches!