Saturday, August 23, 2008

Baños, Ecuador

Everyday is a new adventure! I look back at the last 4 months and think about what I have done and it is amazing. Baños is definitely my favorite place in Ecuador so far. The place is breathtaking beautiful and here we rented motorcycles to take a tour of the place. Although a little expensive ($45) got you a motorcycle that in one day we rode up 2 different mountains each getting to roughly 12000´ and the pictures don´t do the place justice. Along with that we saw about 5 waterfalls and although it was a little scary because you could not see very well rode through 4 fairly long tunnels.







Here at the waterfall Nose of the Devil, you can climb up through a little cave and go underneath the waterfall. You get a really wet but it is really cool to watch all that water flow right over your head and down to the ground.


In Baños they also have a resort call Luna Runton. If you are ever looking for a great place to take the most relaxing week stay at a spa/hotel for around $60 dollars per person a day budget would get you food, spa treatments, use of 4 private hot spring pools, food, view to die for, all located right above Baños, Ecuador which is full of plenty of adventurous things to do.




8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday to me......wohoo.......sounds like you Mom is going to have to bring an extra suit case just to replinish your wardrobe and supplies.....keep it close......Lill

Anonymous said...

HELLO LUKE:

You keep asking me to leave you comments on your blog so here it is. I was just sitting here thinking back on the six months that you stayed with me in your condo, when you were sleeping on the hide a bed so that you could save all that money for your walk about. As uncomfortable as it was it probably felt like a Serta Perfect Sleeper compared to some of the surfaces that you are sleeping on now. I kind of miss our talks, eating together, and you dreaming on the computer about your trip. When you first asked me for my opinion I thought it sounded great, but a little unreasonable. What you are doing just solidifies your persistence that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Like you always say, (If you will it Dude it is no dream).

MERLIN

PS: I just talked to you MOM on the phone and she wanted me to tell you that she is looking forward to seeing you soon.

Anonymous said...

Words of a wise man "If you will id Dude, it is no dream"

Anonymous said...

Luke....

What's up buddy? Sounds like you are climbing the earth, way cool! Things are good here, we are taking care of Merle-Dogger for ya'. Miss you at LODOS this summer, but am trying to keep the ladies happy while you are away. Business is crazy as usual....sales are up and all that good stuff! We move into the building next week, wish I could reserve an office for you....

Take care!!

Anonymous said...

Wow is it quite around here. Clay Mandy, Baby Cadee went to Tulsa for weekend to see her birth Grandmother, Kim is on a train doing some safety stuff, GM is going to come out today. We worked on the trip yesterday. Just about got it all planned. The city is getting ready to "Host" some of the "Gustav" evacuees....guess I will go play in that if we actually get anyone big Hurricane suppose to hit coast tomorrow or Tuesday. Basically just relaxing. The weather is great soft gentle rain yesterday. Looks like we will do about 5 days Southern Scotland, Edinburg, Glasgow before heading to the Highlands and the Isle of Skye spend several days tooling around the Highlands then drive back through Northern England the Lake Dist. Yorkshire to London. We want to see a show. Dad wants to go back to Stonehenge since we got there just at closing last trip and I want to go to Dover. Hoping Westminster will be open this trip. I think I am tired already. We bought some gps software to use. I bought my friend a gps unit for her car for Christmas (she borrowed one when she met me at Disney when I took Kaeleah to Disney in April for spring break) and she loved it.......She suffers from a directional deficiency. She is the only person I know who could get lost in Wellington when we were kids. Anyway...I told her I was taking her Christmas present to England with me. Nothing more here still trying to beg borrow steal donations to the Fish Fry...bout got that done...I was elected treasurer for the church board....been chasing around trying to get names changed on the acct and get that organized......It is all in a alphabetized note book I think I will be putting that on a spreadsheet when I get home.....I have 22 students in Patho Phys this semester and 12 or 13 in Assessment only 3 in the Biology Special Problems...largest classes I have had in awhile. I am trying to talk your Dad into retiring.......no luck yet. I think if there is another contract with another company. I won't have any trouble. If you find some really neat authentic Indian weaving something different send it home and I will send money to Melissa to reimburse you..... no pottery or Indian statues....not crazy about South American Art or relics other than textiles……. Time to get ups make some coffee, read the paper and get ready for church...life goes on. Hope you are having the time of your life. Be safe, have fun, God is with you........Love ya Bud LMC

Anonymous said...

That is Mountain time not Central........it is almost 5 here...by the way the Democratic Convention was cool.........Great ticket Obama and Biden.....Can't believe McCain picked a soccer mom who was govenor of a hamlet of 8000 in Alaska then gov of Alaska for 2 years......He has had melanoma 4 times is 3 years younger then your GM and if he dies we get a soccer mom for president......don't know how much news you get but, about the only thing worse was what we have now......let's see Soccer Mom vs Putin or Armadienjaad.....nothing scary about that....sometimes I think they are all nuts....now I will go have coffee..are you getting a more "wordly view on the election would love to hear some of the comments..same old Washington polictics as usual. I think they must think we are illiterate and just plain stupid. I really will stop now. I will keep you updated on the lunacy........Love ya again Lill

Anonymous said...

All I can say is AMAZING! Amazing someone is talking politics on this blog....LOL.

Anonymous said...

Politics don't you love it any forum for a liberal democrat works.......lmc