Apart Suites Hotel Cuenca

<br><br><br>A very smooth journey to Cuenca where we managed to catch connections of buses within minutes so that 6 hours later we were in our hotel, and a very cheap hotel at that too which made up for our splurge in Vilcabamba. We headed out for dinner that evening to find all the streets around us pitch black, it was very eerie. Then on walking into our chosen restaurant, we were greeted by darkness (bar a few candles) and silence although the ...

... dogs near the village but this one barked and growled at us for over five minutes and we couldn´t progress as it was on the trail and there was no way around it. We even had rocks in our hands, it was quite frightening as it was growling and baring its teeth and I thought it was to going to bite Nathan. Finally a man from a neighbouring house came out and it calmed down and moved away a bit. We had a short back and forth with the man before he asked us for a gift or money for scaring ...

... trip well done the list. The bus was comfortable and took us high above the clouds through wondrous villages standing lonely amongst the enormous giants of the Andes. At one point we passed through a village, which I think was called San Antonio, which was high up in a valley surrounded by lush greener than green fields. Huge mountains ascended all sides and in the distance, below the altitude of the town, was a gap between the mountains where a carpet of white cloud was trying ...

... told him he may need to hide my watch if he´s gonna play that game!! Alex (girl) and myself have come to the conclusion that it was quite possible the boys poisoned us so they could be ´let out´ on their own, as we seemed to all have eaten the same food!!! <br><br>After a slightly extended stay so we could recover we decided to make our way to Cuenca. The night before our bus journey was another 3am finish for Phil and Al ...

So, after a night of recovery after a hectic weekend in Montanita, I set off for the colonial Andean town of Cuenca. Although I had heard that it was a pleasant city I wasn't quite prepared for just how nice it is. Colonial architecture has been well-restored and it seems like around every corner lies another impressive church or plaza. The hostel I stayed in was also a cafe/bar/restaurant with a courtyard area and rooms around this and a nice garden out ...

... from Ecuador's ancient cultures which I really, really enjoyed. They had excellent pieces with very elaborate animal and human figures which were very impressive. I loved watching all of them in detail and taking lots of pics, along with Tristan. Markus didn't seem to like it as much, though. Then we saw some other contemporary art pieces which were pretty cool, but I definitely liked the historical aspects best. It was really cool to see some of ...

... my friends at night. was sooo awesome and relaxing. I read the book Without Remorse in one week!! which is really fast for me becaue i am a aslow reader. Saturday night i decided to have one more fun night in montanita. mariuxi came from guayaquil and we hung out at cana grill mostly, watched the live music. and then we meet up with some of my friends and danced at cana grill until 8 AM when i finally got to bed at 9! haha sounds like fun right ...

... you go. So this was all fine. Found Latachunga and hopped off. Only to find there was no bus there either. So after a brief chat with a friendly cabbie I stopped another bus going south and planned to get off at Ambato which seemed like a better bet. As I was getting my bag of though when in Ambato the conductor asked me where I was going and then told me that it would b easier to stay on this bus, go to Riobamba which is where I was for my first weekend to do the train ...

... depart a 6 et arrivee a lecole a7! la directrice me dit elle se doit detre presente avant tout le monde! on nettoie sa sallle de classe, les 1ers eleves et profs arrivent et hissent les drapeaux. a 8h tout le monde est en rang devant le batiment et chante lhymne nationale et lhymne sportif. le truc cest que je me retrouve en tete dune colonne de CE2! la prof a appele pour dire quelle serait en retard et Suzie ma demande de la remplacer! je me retrouve avec ...

... sounds like gunshots, and by throwing themselves completely out of the water, which is one of the most amazing things we have seen, looks more like a missile being launched and they land with the biggest belly flop you can imagine! Then on to Isla de la Plata (the poor mans Galapagos) where we nearly stepped on blue footed boobies and waved albatross. But then the diarrhea started, which has not been so ...