At four hours of the capital, I Remove, he/she is Bathrooms,
gentle and small city located in the skirts of the volcano Tungurahua to a
height of 1,820 msnm. This Andean population is surrounded of snowy volcanos and
you/he/she possesses sources of wonderful thermal waters. The impressive snowy
volcanos that surround to Bathrooms are four: The Tungurahua (5,061 m), the
Chimborazo (6,310 m), the Altar (5,320 m) and the Carihuairazo (5,020 m).
Bathrooms are in a valley that it is in the center of two national
parks, the National Park Sangay, located looking to the north, toward the right,
declared as Patrimony of the Humanity, kind of a Tortoises in earth; to the left
side he/she is the National Park Llanganates; both form a beautiful biological
corridor.
Located in a valley of cascades and of hot winds, exactly in
the county of Tungurahua, Bathrooms have become an interesting destination for
the international travelers that look for a temperate climate during the whole
year, the city it offers an atmosphere of small city and it is a starting point
to explore Ecuador outdoors. Located at four hours in bus, from I Remove,
Bathrooms offer many adventures, you can make a journey: mounted to horse,
trekking, canotaje, escalade of mountains and mountain bicycle. He/she also
offers an access easy to Riobamba, near city and capital of the county of
Chimborazo; likewise, in Bathrooms the starting point of a touching trip is
located in train, the one that takes us toward the coast, or toward Puyo, one of
the entrances to the river Amazons. Bathrooms are also used as an excellent
place to learn the Spanish language, their people have very good pronunciation.
You can point out that Bathrooms are a sanctuary of peace and
tranquility. In the city they are considered big events: the occasional
operation of a traditional Andean fair, the movie in English of every night that
is exhibited in the cinema, or the chapel of the town; however, the weekends and
during holidays Bathrooms he/she becomes a town in carnivals.
This
mountain spa has 13,000 inhabitants, it is in the right riverbank of the river
Pastaza and it is one of the few places of the planet where the four elements
are conjugated: the fire of a volcano, the water of the cascades and of the
rivers, the wind and the earth; that believe kind of a renovating center of
energy, ideal to enjoy the nature and to renovate forces.
From very
remote times, this place attracted many visitors. It is known that the
indigenous kings came to Bathrooms with their spouses to recover, in their
thermal waters, after their battles. At the present time, travelers from all
over the world visit her in search of adventures; even some people, deeply
impressed for their beauty, they have stayed to live in this place.
One
of the main attractiveness is to see how the smoke and the ash that it leaves
the crater of the Tungurahua, form ethereal figures and for moments it presents
incandescent shows in the horizon, causing a great sobrecogimiento, when
appreciating similar manifestation of the power of the nature, something really
indescribable.
The valley of Bathrooms this surrounded of cascades; it
has 57 in total. The Virgin's cascade, is the only one in the Ecuador located
inside an urban helmet, being the rest in the vicinity of the city. Another
cascade of singular beauty is the girlfriend's 80 meters high mantel. But the
most impressive is that of the devil's Pailón or Green river, considered as one
of the ten bigger jumps of the world, with their approximately 100 meters high
in their fall of water. In this place, the low water for gigantic walls making
shiver to the earth. In this beautiful mountainous spa, the Andean forest mixes
with the amazon high forest, generating an unimaginable biodiversity, to the
point that at the moment grateful 165 endemic species are, the same quantity
that exists in Tortoises.
Bathrooms are an example of tourist
development of the Ecuador and it has also been declared recently as Patrimony
of the Humanity, by the UNESCO.