Riobamba: Friends, Fry ups & hangovers

"Fritada"

Fried Banana,Onions,Fried potato,Cuero (pig-skin),Small Pork Chop,Small salty bits of pork,Beef, nuts...and other stuff i dont know the name of

but by far the wierdest thing about this meal is they give you a spoon to eat it with.

The drink is called "Chicha Huevona"
among the ingredients are:

Beer,Spirits,Egg

..although a read through the ingredients is nearly enough to send me to the vomitorium its actually fairly nice!

Ecuadorian dictionary:

Borracho - drunk
Hecho cerdo - drunk
hecho rata - drunk
Chumado - drunk
Tomado - drunk

bien pluto - very drunk

Chuchaqui - hangover (pronounced (choo-chacky)

..and we think the irish are drinkers?


went out with some ecuadorian friends, we went to watch the football match (Ecuador vs Uruguay) at about 3PM in "Diablo" one of the local nighclubs (that i hadnt noticed before actualy). as soon as the match ended, it was on with the latin music and amasingly to me the dancefloor was packed in the nighclub from 6pm onward...anyway to cut a long sory short we got drunk. hehe

Aguas Thermales
today we went to visit the "aguas thermales" thermal waters of Guayabamba which is close to the town of Chambo. thermal waters are water which comes directly from underground close to a volcano, the water is heated up by the magma under the surface. its beautiful to swim in and there are lots of places around who have harnessed these waters in swimming pools for the public. The ones in Baños are quite popular, but there are so many people in them day in day out that you can d little more than stand on the spot in the water. The ones in Guayabamba are a little more secluded and in a beautiful rural setting surrounded by mountains, rivers and small waterfalls. when we went there today we had the pools all to ourselves. unfortunatly i didnt have my camera with me as i left it in someones house last night in my drunken state (later retrieved). i had one of those "never again!" hangovers today but i have to say, there is no better way to forget your hangover than spending a few hours wallowing around weightlessly in a steaming hot pool of volcanic water. highly recoomended!!

Todays song "Nigga: te quiero"