good morning and welcome to another episode of nicole and mico we've made it over to banos
which is one of the adventure capitals of ecuador this is our second stop in ecuador
and if you saw our last episode we were just in the amazon jungle with our incredible friends
kayla and james we're here all the way from canada and the four of us are going to go
and explore the city and see how much we can pack into two days
so the first thing that we're gonna try today is some bike riding so i think it's about
five bucks to rent a bike with a helmet and we're gonna take it down an 18 kilometer route
over to the waterfalls and the road down to the waterfalls is actually super super nice
because it's about 17 or 18 kilometers and it's all downhill which makes for a great
great start to the morning this is what i'm here for just down
we made it Pailon del Diablo
which is devil's cauldron so now we walk i don't know how long and we get to a beautiful
waterfall
we've been seeing people like coming back the other way and they are absolutely soaked
so i think we're gonna find out why my god here we go it's so loud too you would not
want to be caught at the bottom of that
so in order to go up to the higher viewpoint we have to actually cross underneath this
really tiny little crawl space all right this is it
oh we got someone coming down
right all right it's not too bad for some really good views
i think we have entered level three of the uphill and it looks like it's going to go
through that very wet set of staircases basically we're going underneath or behind the waterfalls
oh my god
as you can see the waterfall is beautiful it might probably look better from the other
side it's a very wet experience if you come here make sure you're ready to get drenched
it's a very wet adventure it was awesome it's actually really cool worth a whopping two
dollars to get in here it's great because you get to go right up to like the base of
the waterfalls can go behind it and like crawl through stuff that was really nice yeah really
really awesome i think i thoroughly enjoyed it we are now soaking wet we gotta hike up
and then we are on to the next activity of the day we have to go back to banos with our
bikes but instead of going all the way back uphill you can actually rent like a truck
that will take you back to banos for like three dollars
all right it's been a whopping four minutes since we dropped off the bikes we're ready
for the next activity which is a circuit i feel like it's like an adult jungle gym i
think it's going to be cool
all right how you guys feeling
are you excited yeah i'm a little nervous so we just crossed over the canyon san martin
and the rio pastaza river it's a good start and a good setup for all this high wire activity
i think it'll be good
first activities repelling that's what we're all most afraid of i think
How do I turn around?
you just get to enjoy the view
very good
repelling was a success, no one died now we go on a three wire bridge which just looks
like a tightrope across a canyon and i think this is all that's holding us on
how is it all right i couldn't take any video across but that was pretty good not too bad
no i would rapel like eight more times before i did this again this was freaking scary i
think that was way scarier than repelling okay time for the big ladder back over the
gorge
all right piece of cake much much better than the last two
so our last activity is zip lining we're gonna go together superman style are the ropes good?
is it okay
totally terrifying they gave us absolutely no warning it was like we were lifted off
and then all of a sudden there we went i guess we're going now it's just like the harnesses
are on you hear them doing something and all of a sudden like the platform lowers beneath
your feet and then you're zoomed you're going you're gone well that was way more fun than
i thought it was gonna be for just 20 bucks a head and we are totally exhausted that was
a very full day and we have another very full day again tomorrow so see you there in case
you wanted to check out these guys they did an awesome job today we felt super safe it
was adrenaline pumping they're called parque aventura san martin we'll put a link in description
all right so it is day two this morning we woke up with a lot of rain so we had an activity
planned that we are going to have to postpone but it cleared up so we rented a set of wheels
which we will show you in a minute and we came to this incredible viewpoint so the viewpoint
is called luna vulcan which is only like a 10 minute drive outside the city and there's
a cafe up here that serves like really nice like chocolate drinks and coffee and things
like that so it is an awesome place to just grab a cup of coffee enjoy the view hopefully
get a glorious day like we are now having and just enjoy
someone promised me rain and clouds
the weather in banos right now has been actually like kind of unpredictable like sometimes
it's rainy sometimes sunny and what's really interesting about the weather is that you
can't google what the weather in banos is so we learned that the weather stations are
all up like high on the hills so that when you search weather in banos you're going to
get a wrong reading for what the weather is like actually in the in the town down in the
valley unfortunately nicole is prepared wrong misprepared it's fine frappuccino will fix
everything so luna volcano where we are right now is actually a hotel and so we have these
beautiful buildings around where you can stay here they have like thermal hot springs but
you have to come and like book a spa package for that and they started like 70 us so we
are not doing that but you can come and just enter the beautiful view in the cafe without
spending a fortune so now we're going to show you guys what we took to get up here there
are lots of like different vehicles you can rent in banos starting with like motorcycles
and bicycles to atvs to a jeep like this one here welcome to our car not exactly the roomiest
but itt's pretty fun it's going to be nice to have this top down all day today
all right so we've made our way up the hill and we're now at casa del arbol which is like
one of the big attractions here in banos casa de albo translates to like tree house and
there's a tree house here with a huge swing beside it and it looks like you're swinging
over the edge at the end of the world and i didn't realize but there's way more than
just the swing there's also like like viewpoints jungle gym play things and there's even like
a zip line so the one dollar for the great views on a sunny day like this was tons of
stuff to see so far it's worth it i don't know not feeling the best i'm really hot kayla
gave me a new sweater that's much cooler than my sweater so that's a good start oh my god
i'm hot it's like 30 degrees it's been like 10 degrees all day we go to the top of the
stinking hill and it's like here's a 30 degree day hope you don't mind but im fine it is
gorgeous here like it's so beautiful here it's only a couple dollars it's worth it to
come up for sure i'd say if you have a way to get up here i think we're gonna try just
to take the swing at the end of the world and make it look like we're falling off a
cliff that's what that's what all the tourists
this isn't even the real swing it's like the fake pre-swing nicole's right it is like the
pre-swing right before the bigger swing over there but hey i'll take a free pre-swing any
day
okay i thought it'd be like a little bit gimmicky hearing about the swing at the end of the
world but now that i'm here and i'm seeing it yeah it swings like right over the edge
it does look a little freaky kayla's hopping on
honestly it's not a bad activity for like one dollar to get into the park and then one
dollar to have a guy like swing you over the edge a professional do it
so you probably didn't see a whole lot of me at that last stop with the swing i started
to feel insanely sick so i just had to sit on a park bench while mico had all the fun
but i'm feeling so much better it's been a couple of days and in those few days kayla
and james have actually gone back home to canada we have this last day here in banos
and we want to go and do one more thing before we leave the city tomorrow
okay there's lots of ways to get around bano so you can take a taxi you can take a bike
you can walk around or you can take one of these i think they call them the chibas they're
like party bus looking things it's a bus with music playing so they just call it a party
bus and we're taking it up the hill for like one nice view before we leave
okay we're making our way up the mountain
this is pretty cool you know for six dollars this is all right
i'm not sure if i'm doing a great job capturing it but the higher that we get up the more
prominent the volcano across the other side of banos is becoming
this is crazy we've gone above the clouds i didn't realize how high this hill was
so we made a quick stop at a viewing point part way up the hill and we're actually able
to get a really really nice view of ungurahua i'm probably saying that wrong but it's a
volcano like right behind banos it is looking extra majestic today it's so gorgeous it's
so clear like i haven't seen this clear since we've been here it's really beautiful i think
the volcano's still like 5 000 something-ish meters above sea level and it last erupted
in 2018 so oh man that is not that long ago
I don't know if its someone's party or just a party happy mother's day
we were offered free wine, that's nice honestly ecuadorians are super nice if we had more
time we would probably take them up on that free wine
everyone knows the words
if you speak spanish please translate what they said
all right let's go see these hands all right we are here welcome to the hands of god otherwise
known as las manos del dios
so the views are awesome but the hands of god leave a lot to be desired they're just
quite wee they're very small i'm not gonna lie i expected something bigger like i'm pretty
sure i've seen something like this in like asia or something i haven't seen it personally
but i know it exists in vietnam so i thought maybe we'd see something like that up here
but it's pretty small but still you can't beat the view
that wraps up our time here in banjos which has been incredible so good honestly there's
so much more you can do here like we have just touched the tip of the iceberg of the
things that you can do when you're exploring banos so you've got to come and check it out
for yourself if you get a chance but we've loved it here yeah we had a great time and
with that we'll leave you there see you next one thanks for watching and really interestingly
and really interesting interestingly enough there's a party already it's only 9 30 in
the morning is it 9 30.
uh it's a really big like local spot for locals