abridged version of a bunch of things cuz i´ve already been on the computer for a while...
first trip to papallacta
so two weekends ago i got invited to go with a group of people to papallacta. papallacta is a volcano about two hours from quito with volcanic hot springs! so we went, travelling was interesting as always and we got there friday afternoon. we decided that we should probably stay over night and went to the local hostel to check prices. wow, they wanted 12 dollars per person per night. heeeeeeeeeell no! this is ecuador! hostels are cheap!!! so we went to check prices at the resort that has the hot springs to see how much more it would be to just stay there. we asked for a quad and a triple room (there were 7 of us) and the lady said, ¨but don´t you want your own cabaña?¨ WHAT?! our own cabaña! of course we want our own cabaña! it ended up being cheaper than the hostel with enterace fees to the hot springs so we went for it. let me tell you about the cabaña, it had two floors, a fire place, 6 beds, a living room with a bay window, a bathroom with a jaquizzi and shower that had french doors opening onto our own patio. it also had a private hot spring that we could use 24-7! all for 20 bucks a night a person!!! lets just say it was amazing. we were in the andes, high in the andes, with our own cabaña sitting in a private hot spring with views of the mountains against a gray sky with exotic fruit trees everywhere. it was unreal. unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries and i only got 2 pictures!!! ahhhhhhhh.
volcanología
so one of my favorite classes is volcanology. it´s so fun and the professor rocks. PLUS there are 4 mandatory field trips and a number of optional trips. last weekend i went on the first field trip to two volcanoes. papallacta and pinchincha.
papallacta:
left saturday at 9.30 am and went to the volcano. got there and had to hike through the jungle. when i say hike, i actually mean forge our way with machetes through the jungle because there was no path. that´s a lie, we didn´t have machetes. but they would´ve helped a lot. anyway, the hike was sooooo fun! there were little rivers we had to go through and we all got dirty. really funny. eventualy we found out that the hike was just for fun and had no purpose. the volcanic rocks we collected we got on the side of the road by the bus. the hike was still worth it.
so then we got back on the bus and headed to a nearby waterfall to collect more volcanic rocks. another really fun hike. litterally up the waterfall. to collect green rock. everyone got really wet this time, but it washed off the mud from the first hike, so that was a plus. if you don´t like to be muddy. me and jaime (male) put mud on our face as war paint. but not everyone is as cool as us...
after that the class split up, some people went back to quito and some of us went to the hot springs in papallacta. wow. that was really fun! i ended up singing yellow submarine and exchanging drunk stories with my professor. he´s greek. his name is theo. he´s the most published professor on campus and we´re friends now.
pinchincha:
so sunday morning i met up with my class at 3.30 am to go up pinchincha. pinchincha is the volcano quito is on the side of. another really fun trip. we took some rickety old suv´s up the mountain and then had to climb the rest of the way. from the top of the mountain you could see southern ecuador, southern colombia, all the volcanoes in between, and on clear days, the ocean. it was unreal. we watched the sun come up over the andes and quito, hiked around and then had a mini-lecture with theo. it was cold up there, but i liked it. the ecuadorians thought i was crazy. i said no, i´m minnesotan. hahaha. gotta love bad jokes! i tried to load more pictures from the top of the mountain, but it wouldn´t let me for some reason, but í have some amazing pics if you ever remember this post and want to see them!
interesting fact: the world´s largest super-volcano is in yellowstone national park. if it would ever errupt, it would be off the volcano eruption scale and the united states would be erased from the earth. all of the united states. during the late 1980´s it had it´s biggest activity in thousands of years when the crater of the volcano sunk a few meters. after that happened, the parliment in england held a conference to discuss what england would do if yellowstone should ever errupt. yellowstone is an inverted volcano.
first trip to papallacta
so two weekends ago i got invited to go with a group of people to papallacta. papallacta is a volcano about two hours from quito with volcanic hot springs! so we went, travelling was interesting as always and we got there friday afternoon. we decided that we should probably stay over night and went to the local hostel to check prices. wow, they wanted 12 dollars per person per night. heeeeeeeeeell no! this is ecuador! hostels are cheap!!! so we went to check prices at the resort that has the hot springs to see how much more it would be to just stay there. we asked for a quad and a triple room (there were 7 of us) and the lady said, ¨but don´t you want your own cabaña?¨ WHAT?! our own cabaña! of course we want our own cabaña! it ended up being cheaper than the hostel with enterace fees to the hot springs so we went for it. let me tell you about the cabaña, it had two floors, a fire place, 6 beds, a living room with a bay window, a bathroom with a jaquizzi and shower that had french doors opening onto our own patio. it also had a private hot spring that we could use 24-7! all for 20 bucks a night a person!!! lets just say it was amazing. we were in the andes, high in the andes, with our own cabaña sitting in a private hot spring with views of the mountains against a gray sky with exotic fruit trees everywhere. it was unreal. unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries and i only got 2 pictures!!! ahhhhhhhh.
volcanología
so one of my favorite classes is volcanology. it´s so fun and the professor rocks. PLUS there are 4 mandatory field trips and a number of optional trips. last weekend i went on the first field trip to two volcanoes. papallacta and pinchincha.
papallacta:
left saturday at 9.30 am and went to the volcano. got there and had to hike through the jungle. when i say hike, i actually mean forge our way with machetes through the jungle because there was no path. that´s a lie, we didn´t have machetes. but they would´ve helped a lot. anyway, the hike was sooooo fun! there were little rivers we had to go through and we all got dirty. really funny. eventualy we found out that the hike was just for fun and had no purpose. the volcanic rocks we collected we got on the side of the road by the bus. the hike was still worth it.
so then we got back on the bus and headed to a nearby waterfall to collect more volcanic rocks. another really fun hike. litterally up the waterfall. to collect green rock. everyone got really wet this time, but it washed off the mud from the first hike, so that was a plus. if you don´t like to be muddy. me and jaime (male) put mud on our face as war paint. but not everyone is as cool as us...
after that the class split up, some people went back to quito and some of us went to the hot springs in papallacta. wow. that was really fun! i ended up singing yellow submarine and exchanging drunk stories with my professor. he´s greek. his name is theo. he´s the most published professor on campus and we´re friends now.
pinchincha:
so sunday morning i met up with my class at 3.30 am to go up pinchincha. pinchincha is the volcano quito is on the side of. another really fun trip. we took some rickety old suv´s up the mountain and then had to climb the rest of the way. from the top of the mountain you could see southern ecuador, southern colombia, all the volcanoes in between, and on clear days, the ocean. it was unreal. we watched the sun come up over the andes and quito, hiked around and then had a mini-lecture with theo. it was cold up there, but i liked it. the ecuadorians thought i was crazy. i said no, i´m minnesotan. hahaha. gotta love bad jokes! i tried to load more pictures from the top of the mountain, but it wouldn´t let me for some reason, but í have some amazing pics if you ever remember this post and want to see them!
interesting fact: the world´s largest super-volcano is in yellowstone national park. if it would ever errupt, it would be off the volcano eruption scale and the united states would be erased from the earth. all of the united states. during the late 1980´s it had it´s biggest activity in thousands of years when the crater of the volcano sunk a few meters. after that happened, the parliment in england held a conference to discuss what england would do if yellowstone should ever errupt. yellowstone is an inverted volcano.
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