Day 90 Oct 31 2014 Banos Ecuador

Day 90  Oct 31 2014  Banos Ecuador

We started the day with a nice breakfast at a restaurant next to the hotel, it served the best coffee I have had in quite a while.  The hotel we are staying in is not the best.  It has a toilet that leaks and there is water on the floor in the bathroom constantly.  There is a bar close by that opens up at 8 pm and plays loud music to 2 am.  That was followed by somebody banging on the door at 4 am and people talking in loud voices.  Needless to say we did not get much sleep.  We have one more night like that to look forward to.  Breakfast was followed by a water fall tour.  Banos has many impressive waterfalls in the area with the most impressive being the Palion del Diablo.    The tour stopped at a zip line place during the tour and we paid for Isabel and David to go.  When Isabel got to the top of the tower she freaked out and came back down the stairs.  The zip line was followed by a trolley zip line which the family went on and enjoyed, even Evy.  When the tour bus returned us to Banos we took a taxi back to the Palion del Diablo to explore the side of the waterfalls that the tour did not stop on.  The visit involved a 10 to 15 minute walk down a trail followed by crawling through a little cave to finally arrive behind the falls.  The walk back up the hill was not as much fun as going down but we all made it ok.  In my opinion Niagara Falls has nothing on the Palion del Diablo as it is truly a magnificent place.  On the way back into town we stopped at another zip line so David could go for another ride.  The zip line was over 1 Km long and David was very content that he could ride it.  The prices here are much cheaper than in Canada.  The first zip line cost $10, the trolley ride cost $1.50 each and the long zip line cost $15.  We went for a really good supper where I had fillet mignon and the total came to $41.50.