Hola from Ecuador!

Hello! I´m still alive! I have a great time over here and time flies. I´ve been in and around Quito for 3 days, climbed a non-active volcano there, 4800 m. Made me a little dizzy because it was only my 2nd day in Quito, my body asked for more oxygen. View Larger Map Quito itself was fun for two days (I´ll come back there my last few days). Its public transportation is amazing, like it is in whole Ecuador. You can get everywhere with the bus, wave your hand and jump on the driving bus. The more expensive ($1 per hour) long travel busses even have uber large wide-screen TV´s with horror movies playing at 9 in the morning. I´ve been on the equator at the commercial Mitad del Mundo, where I debunked the trick in a museum where they showed that water flushes in different directions on the northern/southern hemisphere. After Quito I went south to a beautiful farm/hotel near Cotopaxi, a semi-active volcano. I wanted to climb to the top with a guide, but the weather was too bad (snowstorms) so I just went to 5200 m, to the beginning of the glaciers and went down on a mountainbike which was a good ride. View Larger Map From the farm I went on south to the Quilotoa loop. I travelled together with a british guy (32), we waved a car on the panamericana and jumped in the open pick-up truck. That was a fun ride! The people here drive more crazy than in Croatia! It was fucking scary sometimes. Then we went on the bus to a small village in a beautiful mountain area at 3200 m, it was a 4 hour ride over a very bad sandy road through the mountains. There we slept at an ecological farm with self decomposing toilets, but with a great view while taking a dump. I´ve never seen so many stars. There is no light at all here, it´s at 3200 m and there is no moon! From there I made several hikes in the surrounding area, which was amazing!!! The best part was a giant crater lake in an non-active volcano and a cloud forrest at 4000 m! View Larger Map Today I moved from the Quilotoa area to Baños, which is located on the foot of a large ACTIVE volcano, the Tungurahua. View Larger Map It destroyed the area here in 1999 and is increasingly more active in 2007. The road to here was destroyed a few months ago by small eruptions and windows shattered at 8 km from the volcano. It shoots 9 km high ash clouds into the sky. I hope the (real)clouds are gone tomorrow so that I can actually see the volcano and the ash clouds :) That is, in very-short, what I´ve been up to the last 10 days. I´m using a very slow satellite connection here so I really can´t upload any pictures. Well.... How are you guys doing?