Nice Horsey

Plus – a normal size horse. Minus – still saddle sore. Our 3 hour horseback tour was a gas.

There was no trekking through mud like we did in Costa Rica, but there was plenty of running and trotting. The first stop is a deep canyon with some raging rapids.

Our guide made sure to take our picture there. We then went up and up and up and finally made it to a volcanic spring that has the best tasting mineral water I have ever had. We dumped our bottled water from our nalgenes and filled them up with the stuff. The volcano was covered with a cloud so we didn’t get a chance to see it in all its glory, but a great trip anyway.

We had some lunch in town and hit the market for some stuff and as we went for the cabs our hotel owner was just grabbing one so we were able to share hers and save a whopping $.50 or so. We might have more luck with things like that than we deserve, but we’re not complaining.

We have another travel day tomorrow, but it is only 3.5 or 4 hours from here to Quito so it shouldn’t be bad. We’ll likely do a city tour on Friday and our market day in Otavalo is set for Saturday.  We fly out Sunday at 6:00 AM and will likely be home around midnight. Let us know if there are any special requests.  It’s weird to be down to our last stop on this journey and stranger still that we won’t see home at all in October, but cold or not it will be nice to be home and sleep in our own bed.

More in the next day or so....