That was hot!

The next day, Dania, Sofia (my new collegue) and I went to the hot springs in Caldera. Those springs are natural hot springs which are heated up by the volcanic activity in this area.
After walking/hiking on bad roads and knee-deep mud, we saw the the hot water pools which were fenced in by stones. You could see some air bubbles filled with sulfur coming up, but it didn't smell bad at all, fortunately. And they have their name for a reason: they are really hot...nearly too hot to bear. After a few minutes in the water and a ton of photos, our faces were all red and we were ready to jump into the cold river close by.

Unfortunately, we had to go back after only two hours because we had given the taxi driver a certain time to be back. We didn't know that it would be so cool and relaxing. But Sofia and I already agreed that we'll go back soon and next time we will have lots of time because we will hitchhike.

Crazy girls!

I decided to show Dania the Pipeline Trail in Bajo Mono.

Unfortunately, I couldn't borrow any car, so we had to take the taxi and told them to be back at a certain time because in Bajo Mono the phones have absolutely no reception.

We were both really excited to have a shower under the waterfall, but since it wasn't very sunny, we very soon found out that the water was way too cold to go down all the way. Since we still had a lot of time before the taxi would pick us up, we had a crazy idea and took the most amazing pictures ever. But I can't show them to you! :-P

On our way back, we decided to go back down and walk along another trail for a while because we still had lots of time.But then it started to rain. At first it was just a drizzle, but then it rained heavely and, of course, we didn't have an umbrella or a rain jacket. We couldn't even find any shelter under the trees either and a few minutes later we were completely soaked. But then we found an old greenhouse which at least gave us some shelter from the rain. So, we sat down, covered ourselves with towels and ate cheetos while waiting for the rain to stop or the time to pass. However, the rain didn't stop and we started to freeze. But then we saw something really funny, well...actually something cool. Some indigenous people passed and they had natural umbrellas: huge leaves...very smart!

Fortunately, the taxi was on time and we were so glad to be taken back to the dry house!