https://www.jtalbot.com/tags/ba%C3%B1os/ Recent content in Baños on jtalbot/blog Hugo en-US Copyright 2005-2026 jtalbot - CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/quilotoa/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:30:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/quilotoa/ <p>We drove from Quito to Baños by way of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilotoa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quilotoa</a> today. When the plan was originally pitched, I thought Quilotoa was (mostly) &ldquo;on the way&rdquo; to Baños. When you&rsquo;re zoomed out far enough on Google Maps, the detour from Latacunga to Quilotoa doesn&rsquo;t look like a big deal, but it&rsquo;s a narrow, super windy road through the high mountains with a lot of steep ups and downs. It added an extra 3 hours to the drive (plus the amount of time we spent in Quilotoa). We wound up spending most of the day driving with a pretty good hike to break things up. It was just about perfect.</p>