We stayed a week in Quito, Ecuador. I think I can say that so far it’s been the only bigger city in South America that I’ve actually liked. People generally left us alone (in most other places they try and sell us stuff with force), it was quieter (honking seems to be a major pasttime everywhere else), and I actually enjoyed the cooler weather after coming from Costa Rica and Colombia. Also, our hostal (Hostal Chicago) was awesome and we met alot of cool people on their roof top patio.
Our reason for staying a whole week in Quito was that we were able to take cheap personal Spanish lessons at the hostal, and we thought that would be a good idea. However, it just so happened it was Easter Week (Semana Santa) and in Quito they do some weird things to celebrate.
During the days leading up to Easter, Brianna and I would:
In the last post about the same subject I wrote something like this:
In the town of Baños in Ecuador, the hip thing to do is rent a bike and hit the highway between Baños and Puyo. Puyo is over 60km away, but most of it is downhill. Along the way you see different waterfalls and sights.
Actually, that’s exactly what I wrote. At that time I only had a video (check it) to post of one small part of the journey. Now I have a few pic-tures online from Brianna’s camera and a little time to write about thangs.
In the town of Baños in Ecuador, the hip thing to do is rent a bike and hit the highway between Baños and Puyo. Puyo is over 60km away, but most of it is downhill. Along the way you see different waterfalls and sights. There’s also this crazy cable car you can take across a canyon for a dollar or two. I’d like to post more about this when the pictures finish uploading, but I haven’t done an update for a while and have free access to internet so I thought I would post this video.
