After a lie in during the morning we went for brunch with Susanna and Olivia in town. Not long after we waved them off and it was time to do something with our day. We wasted no time in booking a canyoning tour for an hour later. None of us have ever been canyoning before so were not quite sure what we had let ourselves in for. In brief it involves wearing a harness, getting very wet and navigating your way downstream - it could be swimming jumping off rocks or ...

Banos is a city famous for its adventure sports, its awesome scenery and proximity to mountains, volcanos, jungle and just about everything else. We had arranged to meet Olivia, who we had met in Mancora in Banos and she had booked Jonathan, Luke and I on to a 2 day tour of the area with herself and her friend Susanna who we had not met previously. We were told to be ready for collection at 9am and after a brief delay were ready to hit the road around 11am wit...