{"id":33620,"date":"2013-05-28T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/banos\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:50:57","slug":"banos","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/latin-america\/ecuador-and-galapagos\/banos","title":{"rendered":"Ba\u00f1os"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n Atmospheric town at foot of &nbsp; Tungurahua volcano<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Ba\u00f1os<\/strong> de Agua Santa, called Ba\u00f1os for short, is a small town in central Ecuador. The town is located at the foot of the imposing Tungurahua volcano (in Quichua language: &#8220;little hell&#8221;) on a plateau, surrounded by beautiful green mountains and waterfalls. The road from Ba\u00f1os to the jungle village of Puyo is a common route to the Amazon. The city is known as access to the <strong>Amazon.<\/strong> The name Ba\u00f1os de Agua Santa means Baths of the Holy Water, which refers to the volcanic hot springs that spring up around Ba\u00f1os. The ba\u00f1os area offers a range of possibilities, such as hot water pools, horse riding, rafting, jungle tours and mountain biking. You can cycle downstream along the Pastaza River towards Puyo to see the Waterfall El Pail\u00f3n del Diablo. The local delicacy is milcocha, a kind of toffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ba\u00f1os is a pleasant town at the foot of the Tungurahua volcano, surrounded by green mountains and waterfalls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":21591,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[252],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[224],"class_list":["post-33620","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-ecuador-and-galapagos","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-latin-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33620"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33620"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}