Our next destination was Baños, a small town a couple of hours south of Quito, and a hotspot for pretty much any outdoor activity that a tourist would want to do. Nearly every street in the small town was lined with either hostals or outdoor adventure companies selling horse rides, rafting, hiking, or ATV rides.
Our first day in town we decided to rent mountain bikes and ride 40km or so down the highway past several huge waterfalls. Though the seats were painful and the bikes in poor shape, the ride was almost all downhill, so we could hardly complain.
After a day full of mountain biking we decided to go hit the town with some friends we had met in our hostel. Unfortunately, it was the middle of the week, and despite the munbers of tourists in the town, everything was quite dead. After walking around for a little bit, we did find some open joints, and eventually ended up in a discoteca learning how to salsa dance with the locals. We´re not experts quite yet, but we´re definitely getting better.
We got up the next day eager to get out of town, so we packed our bags and headed to the bus stop where we were able to sample some of the town´s famous taffy and sugar cane juice, squeezed entirely from the sugar canes with now water added. It is the perfect drink for any sugar-obsessed person who wants a quick-and-easy way to destroy their teeth in a matter of minutes.
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