The Last Hike

Judging from our blog entries, it might appear that all we´ve really done is hike through the Andes. Well, it´s partly true. Rest assured, however, that this will be the last outdoor-sy post for a while because from here on out, we´ll be in Quito for a few days and then living in Buenos Aires until late December.

At the Black Sheep Inn, the eco-tourist destination I mentioned earlier, you don´t have much to do beside eat, hike, hangout with the other guests, and read. It´s a spectacular place three hours from any major city in Ecuador. It´s well isolated. Most guests have to ride in a back of a pick up truck to get there...which might have been the better option, given the four-hour, bumpy-ass bus ride we took! The trip is so worth it though.

On our third day here, we took a hike to an active volcano that erupts every 10,000 years. In the mean time, however, it doubles as a giant mountain lake. Don´t ask me how that works.

This will give you a better idea of what we saw.


A bit more to come on the Black Sheep Inn.