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Monday, July 23, 2007

Baños: part 2

I was also going to say, there´s a big church in town, and they have so many services! Practically one every hour. We wanted to visit the church (apparently there´s a church museum of things people have donated to the church because they´ve experienced some miracle and were healed after years of being incapacitated), and when we got there, the church was actually full! And people looked like they were in serious prayer/having a religious moment! Not that I expected all the people in a tourist town to be heretics, but I didn´t expect them to be THAT religious (to have mass every hour and for the church to be reasonably full every time). Anyway, here´s a picture of the church. The funny thing is, at night, the church is all lit up, and it looks like a disco from far away. So we called it the disco church. Church by day, disco by night, where you can get down with Jesus! Here´s a photo. Sorry if it´s not very clear, but you get the idea (it took me a while to work out the appropriate lighting required, and in the end I sort of got it. I could´ve taken a better picture but after standing there for 10 minutes, I couldn´t be bothered anymore).Oh, there´s also a volcano near Baños (it´s called Tungurahua, and it´s active). Here´s a map of the town.
As you can see, it´s really close to the town, and if it erupted, it would probably be devastating. But the people of Baños have thought of everything. In case of an eruption, they´ve marked on the roads the direction in which to run. I thought it was awesome! (In a lonely planet book (or some other travel book) that one of the german volunteers had, it also said which direction to run in order to get the best view of the volcano while running away from it! The ultimate touristy gesture!) I´m not sure where we´re supposed to run to though, because from the map above, it looks like the whole town is within the volcano´s eruption range. Maybe the town has some sort of shelter or something...

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