Hiking and Salsa We started the day with some shopping, after picking up a couple of bits at the supermarket we had a walk across the street to the Mercado Central where we managed to find some breakfast of cheese empanadas (this time deep fried, with sugar and tasting somewhat like a cheese filled donut) and a strawberry milkshake, this cost us a grand total of 3 dollars. We dropped the rest of our shopping off at the hostel and then set off. We walked out of...

Banos Not really managing to do more than doze on the exceptionally bouncy, noisy, hot bus we arrived at Banos at 4 in the morning quite exhausted from our 3 nights on buses without proper sleep. Luckily waiting by the bus station was a man who had a reasonably priced hostel who we followed through the deserted streets in the gentle rain that had started to fall. We reached the hostel and collapsed into our bed, not stirring again until nearly 11am when we got...