So we finished up in Baños with a very beautiful hike up the mountain to try and get a view of the volcano. We hiked up for several hours to have some lovely clouds covering the top of the volcano, but hey it is the journey. So we came to the top thinking we were pretty isolated (after 2 hours of vertical over grown switch backs) we came upon a house and some cows! And in fact there was a whole village up there and apparently they are in better shape then we are (or I think there is a road up there from the other side). Either way we hiked for about 5 hours following this map that almost lead us to our doom, not such an accurate map to say the least.

Sadly we had to move on to try and catch the train in Riobamba. We once again said by to the guys who were not feeling so hot and niether were we. We toughed out the bus ride to only arrive and find out that the Nariz del diablo train was full!!! A bit of a disappointment, but it turned out to be alright as Liana got really sick during the night. Although she had not been feeling well it came on like blitzkreig and about 6:30 AM we finally managed to get a few winks of sleep. The fear of being sick on the bus proved not to be a match for our dislike of Riobamba and we headed off for Alausi. It is a small town where we were to end up if we had been able to catch the train and we had the place cased in about 30 minutes. So now we are relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery and the laid back atmosphere. If everything goes well and we are feeling good tomorrow we will take off to Cuenca which is about another 4 hours. Buses are very cheap out here, its awesome!