On Sunday morning Quesla returned to Shell. The trip was long, but we stopped once in a while to take in the sights. The picture at right shows Quesla in front of a 5' tall mound of platanos, or cooking bananas. Llamas don't eat bananas, do they?

Later on, in the town of Salcedo, Quesla stopped to walk through a street market. She tried to have her picture taken with a mountain Quechua lady in the market, but the lady didn't want to have her picture taken. Can you see Quesla?

Finally, after five hours, Quesla was nearing Shell. Just past the town of Baños we stopped to look into a gorge to see a beautiful waterfall. The waterfall is over 100 feet high and is called Manta de la Novia. That means Bridalveil. There is a path that goes down to the river and then crosses a suspension bridge.

You can't see them in this picture, but there are actually many people down at the stream at the bottom of the falls. It is popular for tourists to rent bicycles in Baños and ride them to Rio Verde, or even as far as Puyo. Many of them stop and hike down to this waterfall.

This waterfall drains into the Pastaza river. The Pastaza river empties into the Amazon river.