Papallacta. “A hot bath, the hard way! On 26 February 2011 the group took a 2 hour bus ride up, up, up [to 3300 meters / 14,00 feet] into the Oriente [East], towards the border with Colombia and the beginning of Amazonian Ecuador. Our destination: Papallacta, home to a volcanic hot-springs park. It was a good day all around; the weather was bright & sunny & warm although our WT field director sez that she has been up there with other groups while it was sleeting. After soaking we went to a hole-in-the-wall, Paul’s, where we enjoyed a great lunch of farm-raised trout, fried potatoes, rice, onion and  [my first] bottle of Ecuadorian Pilsner brand beer. There's trout farming in the region I can report that my own trout did not die in vain. It was delicious.