Happy Holidays to all!!!! May your holiday season be filled with much cheer, love, good friends and special time with your loved ones.
Krysi, Dennis and I finished up our week in Otavalo and have traveled south to Baños - a small pueblo (about 14,000 people) in the mountains. We have met up with some of my friends - Rebecca, Dylan and Neil from Alto Choco. So I am spending the holidays with some treasured friends - both new and old. It is stunningly beautiful, with green mountains in all directions. We hiked yesterday up into the hills for several hours. We came across some incredible farmland and houses. I am so impressed at how the Ecuatorianos take care of their land. It sure shows their care and love of the land.
Today we biked from town about 25 km or so and saw 4 different and amazing waterfalls. They had 2 cable cars that crossd the canyon ( at least 1/2 mile high but probably more) to get to the waterfalls. We had to ride our bikes through a tunnel which was incredible because there were no lights and it was pitch black in places and we could only see when a car/truck went through.
During the nighttime, we walked to some thermal pools - HEAVENLY!!!! They had several pools of varying sies, shapes and temperatures. We came up with a great routine which we did 3 times. First we would soak in the hot pool. Then we would go upstairs and swim in the cool pool followed by a plunge in the waterfall waters. They had 2 pipes coming out of the earth with the cold water gushing out of them - it was incredibly invigorating, enlivening and refreshing. We would go back to the cool pool, swim and then take another plunge before returning to the hot pools. It was awesome.
I have loved some of the signs I have seen along the paths - very inspiring.
Taking care of the water is taking care of our lives!!!!
To be an owner, it is the same as you learning to take advantage of the silence of the nature
We are headed off to the coast. I am sure excited to see what the coastline of Ecuador looks like.
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