Hot Springs

We caught a bus to a spa resort in the mountains. Only two of Ecuador's mountains are not volcanic, so hot springs are evidently everywhere. These are only a couple of hours south east of Quito, but already the water from the streams is running into the Amazon.

The resort is the best place we will be staying, and it is really something. My "room" consists of a bedroom with two arched windows and a relatively plain window, a shower/tub room which could bathe several at once, and a dining/kitchen/lounge room with two couches and a table and a meal preparation area that is in total smaller than the bedroom. Each suite has its own exterior hot pool, and there is a cold plunge pool shared between ten suites, all beautifully landscaped into grottos. The bath water is from the hot spring, and the floors are all heated by the hot spring.

It is also extremely high - about 3300 metres according to our notes - the highest we will be. The Internet is extremely patchy, and I hope to send this in a patch.