Hi Everyone! In the last few days in Ecuador, Dad and I have been visiting some of the local cities near Quito, Ecuador. Our family have been showing us around to many beautiful places.
Yesterday Dad and I went to Baños which was about 3 hrs drive from Quito. My uncle Marco, his wife (Lucia) and his son (Mauricio's) family invited us out for the day. It was difficult to wake up in the morning because the previous day we went to my cousin's son's Baptism celebration which was in the evening and went through till early hours of the morning. We did manage to wriggle out of bed though.
On the way we passed a volcano that errupted 3 months ago, Tunguragua. The whole city had to be evacuated at the time. We stopped to have a look at the destruction that it caused which was incredible. Many tourists were there picking up some of the rocks that were left there.
We also passed a town (forgive me for not remembering the name) where they mainly manufacture jeans clothing. There you can find them very cheap, about $7 a pair of jeans!!! I´ll put the name up of the place as soon as I can for all you shop-a-holics! :) Whilst we were there we also saw roasting ginea pigs on a rotisary!!! We stopped to take a photo beside it! I smelt delicious but we didn´t try it. We have tried it though when we were in Peru, it tastes really nice! SOrt of like chicken!
Baños is a beautiful small city where a lot of tourists come for many different tours and adventures like bungy jumping. We were really just passing through.
We went into the beautiful local church there, ate some beautiful hand made candy which we saw being made, chewed on some wonderful refreshing sugar canes, ate a local dish called liaguarlocro and beautifully cooked trout and chicken.
The day passed very quickly and unfortunately we didn´t visit the hot springs in Baños...hopefully we get another opportunity to visit Baños an dthe lovely hot springs which await us.
Yesterday Dad and I went to Baños which was about 3 hrs drive from Quito. My uncle Marco, his wife (Lucia) and his son (Mauricio's) family invited us out for the day. It was difficult to wake up in the morning because the previous day we went to my cousin's son's Baptism celebration which was in the evening and went through till early hours of the morning. We did manage to wriggle out of bed though.
On the way we passed a volcano that errupted 3 months ago, Tunguragua. The whole city had to be evacuated at the time. We stopped to have a look at the destruction that it caused which was incredible. Many tourists were there picking up some of the rocks that were left there.
We also passed a town (forgive me for not remembering the name) where they mainly manufacture jeans clothing. There you can find them very cheap, about $7 a pair of jeans!!! I´ll put the name up of the place as soon as I can for all you shop-a-holics! :) Whilst we were there we also saw roasting ginea pigs on a rotisary!!! We stopped to take a photo beside it! I smelt delicious but we didn´t try it. We have tried it though when we were in Peru, it tastes really nice! SOrt of like chicken!
Baños is a beautiful small city where a lot of tourists come for many different tours and adventures like bungy jumping. We were really just passing through.
We went into the beautiful local church there, ate some beautiful hand made candy which we saw being made, chewed on some wonderful refreshing sugar canes, ate a local dish called liaguarlocro and beautifully cooked trout and chicken.
The day passed very quickly and unfortunately we didn´t visit the hot springs in Baños...hopefully we get another opportunity to visit Baños an dthe lovely hot springs which await us.
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I had some fun for my birthday ~ we did lots of eating, drinking and dancing! We missed you for it, but we'll so it another time.
xx take care & see you in a few weeks.
ciao!
Finally had a chance to view your blog and we are really jealous that you are still in SA. We are having a great time in NZ but miss the funny mishaps in peru.
look forward to seeing you in Sydney !
Colette and Julia xxx
Finally had a chance to view your blog and we are really jealous that you are still in SA. We are having a great time in NZ but miss the funny mishaps in peru.
look forward to seeing you in Sydney !
Colette and Julia xxx
I'm glad you received the postcard! I gave most of my postcards to my guide to post for me, mainly because I wrote them a little late in the trip and sisn't have access to a post office. Thank you Nicolas if you are reading this! :)
Oh yeah and Baños means toilet which is pretty funny. Someone told me that the hot springs there do smell like a toilet so I've yet to find out. :( I can't remember who told me though...
Can't wait to see you both when you come to Australia!
How's NZ? I've never been but will visit sometime in the near future I'm sure. Take care!