If you are passing through Quito at any stage in your travels, you might like to consider taking a load off with a visit to Papallacta. There are pools of hot mineral water ranging from bath to swimming pool size, all at different temperatures. Set at nearly cloud level in the Andes, you paddle around looking up at the peaks, condor spotting, or if you go at night looking up at the stars. There is now a lodge there where you can stay with its own pools, or two cabins inside that sleep 8. if you can, stay the night and you have all the pools to yourself. mmmm. To get there you need to go about an hour and a half west of Quito, down through the valley of Tumbaco and ...  Read the complete review