El Dorado Hotel Cuenca

... 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!!!

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 ...

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The journey was long and fairly uneventful. I met an English musician, Steve, at the border as we completed the formalities and we got chatting. Largely because I'd been starved of company I went against my better judgement and stayed in the Peruvian border town of Tumbes for one night instead of jumping straight on a night bus to the city of Chiclayo, where there were a few things I wanted to see and do. And that's where it all went so very wrong...

... the whole wheat bread for the town!

Q: What can you put on your bread?

A: There’s butter, or peanut butter (raw, ground without salt), or marmalade, or honey! It goes really great with soup too. The butter tastes different from the butter in the states. One gal here hates it. It reminds Bruce of butter his mom would make from their cows. It's got it's own taste!

Q: What’s that sound?


A: Horses hooves—a few ...

... road repairs going on and detours.
At one of the halts for road works two Ecuadorians roll up behind us in Royal Mail jackets, we could not get to the bottom of how they got them but it raised a bit of a laugh!
We stop at Riobamba for lunch in a local cafe, juice, soup, and a meat and rice main course $1.5 USD.
When we move off again we come to an unmarked T juction toss the coin and get it wrong, we waste an hour and a half ...

... then after 5 miutes or so of this nonsense (during which we thought our stuff had for sure been stolen) a man comes to the door and nonchallently opens it while i try ask him why we werent given a key or if there was something else we were supposed to do...no response, literally just walks away.THEN we go this sketch room they moved us to be cause the dorms were supposedly full, go into the room. light doesn´t work, the whole hostel is ...

... th*t h*d been uncovered, hum*n s*crifice, re*lly nice cer*mic tiles etc, but it w*s still English L*ngu*ge for Peruvi*ns 101. We *mused ourselves gre*tly sh*dow d*ncing, m*king *t l*st count; * be*r, r*bbits, YMCA *nd * shiv* style d*nce, it w*s prob*bly * bit rude but in f*irness your ment*l he*lth is your most precious gift. We *lso met our first h*irless dog, there h*s been some deb*te *s to whether it should be c*lled * ‘pog’ or ...

Do mesta Cuenca jsme dorazili vecer a po veceri hledali nejakou internetovou kavarnu.Na nestesti je internet vsude hrozne pomaly a tak mame problem se stahovanim fotek.Rano po snidani jsme vyrazili na prohlidku mesta. Mesto Cuenca je pekne a na Ecuadorske pomery je ciste. Domecky jsou ve spanelskem stylu, hezky upravene v ruznych barvach. Cela ...

... thegar madur gat skodad minnkud hofud. Hàrin minnka hinsvegar ekki svo augn og nefhàrin virkudu mjog àberandi à theim. Thvì midur gàtum vid ekki tekid myndir thvì myndavèlarnar voru teknar af okkur àdur en vid fòrum inn. Thessi hofud voru ca 400 àra gomul og virkudu eins og dùkkur. Thad er vìst bannad ad gera thetta ì dag en ì stadin minnka their hofud af letidyrum og sàum vid eitt svoleidis stykki lika ...