Excursion after school was to “Los Vahos” which was an hour walk over the hill from Xela. Quite a nice walk with a good view over the city and and across to Baul which had been climbed the weekend before.












Sarah hadn’t felt like coming on the walk so it was just Silvie (student), Domingo (teacher) and myself. “Los Vahos” was a rather rustic building housing thermal sauna/steam bath rooms. We had a large room with a couple of day-beds to change in which led on to a small room with a cold shower and another doorway to a very small sauna room. Lots of heat and steam and the hot tiles had eucalyptus leaves spread on them which certainly helped to clear the nose!


Couldn’t spend more than 15 minutes in the sauna and felt very relaxed when we emerged.
During the walk back to Xela it looked like we were going to be caught in the rain but despite seeing the rain-clouds bearing down the valley in the last of the daylight we managed to avoid getting wet.