The bus journey to Alausi was amazing. We are still really high up (3000m??) but the landscape has completely changed, there are huge green hills everywhere, its like a scaled up slightly tropical Wales. The hills are surrounded by seas of cloud, so that they look like islands in the sky. It was incredible but I couldn´t get any decent photos due to being sat on the wrong side of a crowded bus grrr.
Went on a train journey in Alausi, which was really bigged up in the guidebook. You were meant to be able to sit on the roof of the train but cos some eejit tourists fell off and died that´s no longer allowed. The train thing wasn´t that great and was made worse by the fact that it took the ticket guys 6 hours or so to distribute tickets to maybe 150 people. Wouldn´t recommend this.
Headed to Baños next, a town near volcanos famous for it´s hot baths. Saw some big snowcapped volcanos on the way, no smoke though. In Baños we rented some mountain bikes and went on a daytrip to some waterfalls. Mountain biking is defo not for me. Chickened out and walked so many times hehe.
Visited some hot baths but they were packed with local people. Had a steambath as well which was really weird. You get shut in this wooden box with only your head sticking out, then you get out and some guy chucks cold water over you while laughing. This was repeated a few times, then the guy said ¨now for the final torture¨ and hosed me down with freezing cold water. :SMoved on to a town called Tena and did some white water rafting. Had to fill in a form at the beginning that said ¨have you had anything traumatic happen to you recently?¨ Decided not to mention the steam bath. The tour was run by a company called River People. Even got to swim through some of the calmer rapids. Really recommend it, was great fun. Some of the folks with us had waterproof cameras and got some action shots, but so far have failed to track them down on facebook.
Just when we left this place a snake swam past :P
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