Not exactly the day I had planned

Wednesday June 4th

Most everyone else went canyoning, but I didn't really see the point of jumping down waterfalls into pools of water. So I just spent part of the day walking around the town of Banos. It is a really lovely town, or at least its setting is. It is totally surrounded on 4 sides by tall mountains (well a volcano on one side), and it has a river flowing down a deep gorge running through it. And probably most spectacularly of all it has a 100 meter waterfall dropping down one side of the mountains into the town. This happened to be the view we had out of our hotel, probably the best view we have had from any window.

Well me walking around Banos isn't all that happened today. There was a bit of an illness for someone else, and I did end up having to accompanying them to the hospital as there was nobody else around, so I got to see the inside of an Ecuadorian hospital in a tiny little town. And truth be told it was fairly OK. There wasn't as much equipment as you might see at home in even a GPs office, but it was clean and it had enough equipment to do the required tests. And it didn't cost that much. So it was nowhere nearly as bad as it you might have imagined.