Ecuador - White Water Rafting in Baños

Going to Baños was one of the main highlights of my trip. It's a town that is full of adventure with any type of outdoor activity you can imagine. About 8 of the volunteers took a three hour bus ride down there on our first weekend.

We chose to go white water rafting the first day we were there and it was seriously one of the craziest things I have ever done. To paint a picture of this day it was an overall 6 hour excursion since you have to take a bus ride for 2 hours to get to the water. Anyway when we left it was sunny and the whole way there it was pouring rain and we couldn't back out. They had us put on soaked wet suits and shoes that have probably never seen a washer before, which freaked us out even more. By the time we hit the water the rain had pretty much subsided, it was just cold.

On a 1-5 scale for rafting the river we were on was a 4. We signed no waivers or anything so it was pretty shady. Of the four that went with us we were the only raft that didn't tip.  

These pictures seriously don't even capture 80 percent of what we went through. This last picture shows just a glimpse of the amazing scenery down the river. This whole experience was crazy but so much fun.