This post is part of the summary-article 3-Week Itinerary Ecuador (including Galapagos) on a Budget . You can either use the links in the summary to get detailed information about each place in the itinerary, or the floating bar at the bottom of the page to navigate through each day.
Baños – 
We can get up at a reasonable time today and have breakfast. Yesterday’s hiking tour doesn’t have to be resumed today. Now we want to visit the area around Baños – certainly in a touristic way, yet simple and comfortable.
We already visited one of the many tour operators yesterday and are punctually in the office – we’ re off right away. Alright – off to the Chiva party buses. In a parallel street to the pedestrian zone one bus is lined up behind the next. We board ours and hardly a few minutes later we depart.