Chuchaqui (Hangover)

We were up at 9, not really feeling 100% to say the least.

We got a tourist bus down to the bridge on the far side on Baños, where Mina, then Julia & Vicky, then I all did a "Swing Jump". It was surprisingly good, although not such a brilliant idea with a hangover.

After thatAfter that, we took the open-sided tourist bus down the valley, where we hiked to a waterfall in the middle of the forest. After crawling through a tight cave, you could get out and stand underneath the waterfall itself - an excellent hangover cure!

That evening after returning to Baños, we watched Ecuador play a critical World Cup Qualifier match - excellent atmosphere and stuff but Paraguay equalised in the last minute.

The following day, we got up at 5am to watch the sunrise from the thermal baths; it was a good experience but the sunrise was fairly non-existent since it rose behind the mountain!

At 8, Richard, Carly, Angela and I climbed the mountain above the town, but a 90 minute walk turned into a 5 hour walk after we took the wrong route! It was nice though, and we got some excellent views of the erupting volcano.

In the evening we went for a few quiet drinks, which turned into a few not so quiet drinks after the bar manager recognised me from the previous night! Thoroughly enjoyable again but we had to be up at 7.30 the following morning to head to Cuenca, Ecuador´s third largest - and richest - city.