welcome back to banos ecuador this is our second video here in banos so if you missed the first one
make sure to watch it we'll link it up above it was more about the adventures that we did
here in banos yeah and we're gonna do some more adventuring today but uh this video is going to
be more about the beauty of the area and last time we just had like a bunch of activities and
it was kind of crazy this time we're just going to go and just enjoy the valley that is banos
so we're here at ivaga tours tour operator these guys have so many different tours
not only in banos but all over ecuador there's so many different options that
you can choose from if you go through them but we're just gonna do one tour today and
that is renting a dune buggy to go up the ruta de cascadas so it's going to be awesome
all ready
so once you get into the canyon it starts raining a little bit the weather here is just crazy
it's all over the place so we rain proofed up and now we're on our way again let's hope it clears up
have fun yet oh yeah this is so sick
oh my word eric what the heck like literally everywhere we go this is our luck we'll start
the day and it was beautiful and sunny in banos and then we leave
and it just it's absolutely pouring rain right now i swear the rain just follows us everywhere we go
i don't even understand you can't even see the mountains oh
oh it's what it is so while sarah's getting a little bit of rain gear on i wanted to kind
of tell you a little bit about the ruta de las cascadas so this is basically just like uh uh
it goes along the highway actually out from banos it's kind of towards the amazon and it's just all
along this whole valley that has tons of different waterfalls uh today i think we're supposed to be
going to seven i don't know if we'll make it to all seven because it's rainy and we've been kind
of behind a bunch of buses but it's amazing like just to be able to just drive through
basically pre-amazon i don't know how else to really describe it like this the edge of
the amazon like you can see all the vegetation like around us like even up here it's just green
everywhere it's amazing so this is totally worth it so far even though it's been raining and it's
super fun that we get to just go on this dune buggy it's just a riot to be honest it's awesome
got to stay positive right there always always having fun but i'm still praying for some sun
yeah it'll come probably as soon as like literally the second that we're fully
suited up it's gonna get sunny i already know it oh yeah we're gonna be super hot
we finally made it to paella diablo this is like the classic most classic waterfall here in ecuador
so we're excited to be here and learn about it and walk around and as we predict predicted as
soon as we put a rain gear on it's now really warm and clearing up a little bit so but i'm not
complaining definitely i'll take it about that i love even the walk down to the pail on the diablo
it's like super jungly like this is amazing we're definitely at the entrance of the amazon here
wow i can't believe we're here like there's so much water coming from the like just like
the mist coming off the waterfall it's insane i think we're gonna get soaked
all right i think i gotta suit up here
there we go
ready to rock here we go
oh my goodness
this is your insanity
soaking wet absolutely drenched
oh yeah so right now because there's so much water like it's actually just like
giving us so much mist like we're getting absolutely soaked like my feet are drenched
we're gonna go through here to get closer to the waterfall
this is crazy
going great this is so insane
this i cannot
this is crazy
that could knock you out big time
all right
wow this is crazy holy cow what the heck
okay i'm soaked let's get out of here
we made it to the bridge this is like the most classic instagram bridge from ecuador like
literally everyone has a picture of this bridge you can see the full beautiful waterfall behind it
so amazing surrounded by beauty
all right so we're headed out from island of diablo i think we gotta just kind of burn back
and uh yeah this time sarah's driving so wish me luck oh you think i'm a good driver
so thanks for coming along with us today this was a lot more relaxed than the last vlog i think yeah
we've been in banos for a week and honestly it's been a crazy week we feel like we still didn't
have enough time to do everything because there's just endless tours and other things you could do
so it was nice just to kind of explore today yeah for sure it was very beautiful like honestly being
able to drive through the valley is just amazing like all these different waterfalls and places
that you can go the one thing that we will say is that we kind of wish we had a little bit more time
yeah we rented buggies for about four hours and we probably could have rented them for like six
yeah if we could because you take quite a few like quite a bit of time to actually get to the end
waterfall and back even just the driving itself so with all the other waterfalls to stop at and we
would have loved to be able to go on the different trams or bridges that they had to walk across but
we kind of felt like we would take a quick stop take some photos and have to move on to make it
back in the four hours especially because the very last waterfall takes like at least an hour to walk
to and back so uh yeah i would say it's an awesome way to explore but maybe get some more time
yeah like that's an option or or even like taking the chivas like those bigger buses that kind of
go around town party buses party buses that's also another option like you don't get as much time at
each place but at least you get to see everything without the hassle of trying to figure everything
out yeah because like somehow banos isn't really set up to for like a self-guided tour
in my in our opinion yeah it's set up it seems so that you go on tours yeah yeah which is fine
honestly i think it's great i think we're just a little bit too cheap to be doing to go on tours
it's hard because we we takes a lot of time to do our videoing stuff and our photos so we we like
to be able to navigate places on our own so we can take our time and be able to spend as much time as
we want so we're not used to going on like these buses where they just stop where they want to stop
and they give you a set amount of time we're not used to doing that because we like to just
kind of navigate things by ourselves but in a place like banos i would recommend it because it
is way simpler to just go with a tour and have them take you around for sure all in all bad
news has been awesome oh beautiful place tours was great to rent a buggy from and yeah make
sure to come here and explore all the things that's right and we'll see in the next one
glasses away they're useless
stupid bun head it's so big
it struggles
there we go