The Journey To Devils Cauldron In South America - Underneath Banos Waterfall & Visiting Hands of God
Ecuador Feb 2025
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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February 7th
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2025 currently standing in this park
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near a hotel Kito Ecuador going to be
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heading Southward pretty good ways this
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will probably be the lengthiest amount
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of time in the van today the group that
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I am with heading Southward I'm guessing
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about 3 hours if we don't stop but
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hopefully we do get out see some small
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towns and other things on the way to the
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destination going to see a waterfall
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going to see some Scenic
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views and who knows what the heck else
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here in South America I'm inviting you
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to join me it's good to have you here
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where my hat I got yesterday shall you I
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like all these little sculptures
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everywhere not really sure the
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indication of what this is oh my gosh
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there's a hang glider up there look at
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that look at that in the
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fog look look at
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that
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wow because this someone has removed the
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placard bus is rolling out at 7:00 a.m.
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it's 650 now 47° here in
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keto going take probably I don't know 3
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4 hours to get there this is the name of
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the town I'm not even going to attemp to
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pronounce it BOS
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BOS by the time we get there it probably
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be about 65 de but currently it's 56
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there it'll take a while all right
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hopping in the van just asked the guide
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the driver so it's going to be probably
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about 4 hours straight shot South in the
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van if we don't
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stop all right just a couple minutes shy
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of four hours
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later ride the top of a Mountaintop Peak
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going to do a couple things
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here see this big mushroom over
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here yeah on the way up it seem like
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there's quite a few interesting
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attractions at the top of this mountain
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so we've arrived got a coffee little at
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a gas stop earlier throw my cup away in
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this monstrous trash can
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now I know because I've been to the
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locations of mono's hands of Fate that
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monos means
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hands a lot of the restroom facilities
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are like this they're kind of open air
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this gnome does not seem to mine though
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Zona
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Dex oh look at
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this you have to
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purchase toilet paper
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some zebras carved to the side of
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this little here you got
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some
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swings and it appears up here there's an
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artistic rendering of someone on the top
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of Eagle's
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Wings there a gnome right here on this
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little swing
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squirrel this must be the way of the
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hands
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attraction artwork on these seats some
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zip lines and
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things look at this old Simpsons game
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that's a relic look at that at Homer
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right here
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not really sure exactly what that is I
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guess it's
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a puzzle of some sort all right so
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basically is you pay an admission price
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to go out and you go out to the I think
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it's called hands of God which is an
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attraction that they have built these
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hands two hands reaching out with the
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fingers and everything at the end of
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this little walkway out and you can pay
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a couple extra dollars and they'll take
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a drone farther out so you can get a
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photo of you standing with the hands and
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all that so basically we're just walking
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out towards the hands of God overlooking
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this Valley and the mountain peaks and
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the very beautiful Scenic views looking
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out across the way yes out onto the
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other hand you can even see there's even
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a little face drawn right there you got
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the clouds and the little Haze with a
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mountain behind it pretty dang cool
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overlooking the overlooking the valley
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here there's one hand here one hand
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there
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fingers all right pretty cool experience
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over looking over look in the valley
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here
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my is appropriate up here too some sort
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of a maze and or Labyrinth over here as
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well that you can like walk through
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after you get off the out of the hands
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area which way out I see my reflection
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right there and go this way go that way
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I see myself over there as well see
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myself here as well uh no not that way
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not that way up up nope not that way
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carry on this way and nope nope
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nope oh this way that's it
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okay I got this i got this
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excess made it out of the labyrinth
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Andor maze what are these it's like a
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little trolley cart of little gnomes and
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trolls right
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here and then there's this you know what
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I think they might have one of these
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at anista in Gatlinburg there's
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something similar to this
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there just like Drew back a dra of
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memory there you got all the little
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gnomes all along here got Little Gnome
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homes right there this one's got a
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bright idea thinking some thoughts that
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one's got a
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stick is is this seven dwarfs yep sure
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is seven dwarfs live over here as well
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amongst the
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Gnomes there they are the Snow
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White there's that
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Cottage speaking of cottage there like
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this little guess a store right here or
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something it's a gnome home inside here
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as well this is a pretty magical and
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pretty pretty interesting here amongst
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the clouds with all the all the Little
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Gnome creatures that live up amongst the
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clouds including this guy right here
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he's holding something in his hand if
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I've ever visited a gnome home before
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but that was was pretty neat see you
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later gnome
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home of Ecuador The Gnome home a lot of
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artwork this is the pathway that came
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down from the hands that
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direction this looks like a bounceable p
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panda
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a little ball
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pit it's a little ball pit right
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pit it wasn't as deep as I thought it
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was going to
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be keep the clean yeah
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grip and the sty is
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war and plantain one three yeah it's
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weather for tomorrow that's
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a as we're exiting that property onto
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another spot there's a little sand
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volleyball court
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here and this appears to be from
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Moana take a look at that right there
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you have the
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I mean I'm guessing that is supposed to
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be what that's supposed to
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symbolize over there off
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the side of the mountain
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another stop off here oh I can hear
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water rolling so probably must be a
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waterfall close
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by it's like a little Wishing Well of
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sorts you got hummingbird artwork there
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got some two cans I still haven't seen a
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twocan in the
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wild you see the river right down there
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look at that
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Riverside shopping Village if you will
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through
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here try
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something one of my favorite oh look at
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this is a FL baloney no
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this I'll try a little try a little bite
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of this
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here down by the
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good very different balcony
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viewpoints cascading
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waterfalls there's like another one here
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little
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Cascada
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yeah that's something look at
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wow hear the Roar of
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that that is
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awesome this is so dang
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here do not climb or stand on walls or
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handrails do not leave the leave the
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halfth that thing would pull you under
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that is some power back
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there Che out this little wooden bridge
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walkway out there to the
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Overlook that is awesome
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little rickety Bridge here not super
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rickety but Ricky enough
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car
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look at that you can stand you wanted to
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you could stand right underneath where
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the waterers cing
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down the loudness and roaring of this
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water is no joke
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wow that
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is something else oh my
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God holy
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crap look at this I am underneath a
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freaking waterfall right
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that is a force of freaking nature right
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you see do you see that the color yeah
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that other river is the pasta or the
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pasta in the other
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Province
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okay this is called something the devil
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something though right because the
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Devil's Cauldron okay the Devil's
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Cauldron
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beautiful really unbelievable I don't
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think I've ever stood at the bottom of
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something like
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this just of a roaring water ball before
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like this
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trying to soak it in literally cuz I'm
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getting you're getting kind of soaked
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just incredible like right here
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stopped off here just for a few minutes
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going to walk around the town square
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BOS course are heading back got a really
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impressive church building over here
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which looks amazing but there's
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also bunch of directional arrows it
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shows exactly how far from keto even to
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get over 172 that's kilometers however
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you got way Aries there Santiago up
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there Chicago is
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4,916 kilm if I'm reading that
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correctly some pigeons over
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here TPP a bag
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could feed the birds if you so
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choose another waterfall up there oh
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yeah there's water so many waterfalls
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here there another one kind of careening
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down the side of the mountain right
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pigeons like someone has scattered some
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seeds
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really like that church I wonder if it's
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open the church might be
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open there it is Thanos
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thing I've noticed from my time here in
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Ecuador the most
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popular American ice fast food place
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that I have seen has been KFC there are
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a lot of KFCs more KFCs than there are a
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lot of the other American ice franchises
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KFC right there
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oh at this dinosaur park up here called
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Dino
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Park way up there look at
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pipe not the same
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waterfall it's a lot of them around here
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one right there
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and the roots of a tree with someone
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playing guitar next to
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eye there's another Little Town Square
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this is cute too little more Greenery in
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this one big old tree right here
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even got a little little Bridge there
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that goes to the corner of that
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tree there's a fountain here nice kind
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of reminds me of the Orange Circle
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Fountain there there's a bunch of
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gentlemen here
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just catching up having a good old time
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that one's not working
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but this is it a little Fountain right
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here alamino
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Flores also says Julio 199
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4 the general Palamino
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Flores another little Fountain right
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here it's a unique
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bicycle like the carrying compartment is
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on the front it's kind of that's an
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antique right
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there this is more modern day this guy's
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riding on
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it's Jesus here yep like
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it these of the things are pretty
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reasonable around here so you can get
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like t-shirts $10 you get this jacket
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right here 10 all these shirts here five
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$5
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promotion yeah things are pretty pretty
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inexpensive when it comes to little
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souvenirs five only $5 some ice cream
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vendors walking by little taxi standing
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take a look at this clock t Tower right
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up there he got the the clock tower in
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the Forefront of The
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Magnificent very Lush
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Vasa also noticing how many massage
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places there are in this town a lot of
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massage places and
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murals oh shrunken head I think it
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supposed to symbolize a shrunken head
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saw one of those at the center of the
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world
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yesterday a lot of volcano I think the
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guide was saying there's like seven
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volcanoes in this area not including the
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one here on the
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active all right about 4-Hour drive
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back lot of time in the van tonight lot
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of time in the van I made it back to the
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hotel pretty
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exhausted that's going to do it for
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today covered a lot of ground that was a
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that was a lengthy
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distance thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video the
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Vlog the flock it's
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over the waterfall was so Dad cool