Hotel El Quijote Cuenca

... couple of local sites including our first Inca remain (Ingapirca) and an attractive National park called Parque Cajas. Whilst there we saw our first llamas, which were swiftly heavily photographed!<br><br> We also met up with a German couple we had got to know while in the jungle - Julia and Fabian. Due to the quirks of ...

... a nice change from the chicken, rice and fish we´d been having.<br><br>The following day we hired bikes for the day and rode down the valley towards Puno. The road is called Ruta de Cascadas (route of the waterfalls) so we saw plenty of those along the way. The road got narrow in some parts and there were some tunnels, but a separate bike path had been created for a lot of the narrow sections which was great. It began to rain quite heavily at one stage but soon cleared up &#8211; the area ...

... Ecuador. Vergeleken met de tarieven voor maaltijden hier (2.5 dollar voor soep, hoofdgerecht en dessert) was het duur, maar voor ons is het nog altijd goedkoop. Na het eten tranfsormeerde de bar in een salsaclub. 't was leuk om te zien, maar we hebben ons niet op de dansvloer gewaagd. Iedereen was mooi uitgedost en wij zaten in ons jeansbroek en fleece (Astrid) of trui (Ellen). We hebben ons wel gewaagd aan een lekker Chileens wijntje. Een glas was even duur als ...

... There were rows of seats for spectators. As I watched through the crack I saw a goal being scored, it was a reasonable standard. We spoke to a man outside who told us it was synthetic pitch, which is to me an absolute must. Grass pitches are incredibly difficult to maintain and in most environments decay quickly either due to lack of rain, or are simply overused. Most pitches end up as dirt pitches with patches of grass and I have already seen hundreds of these in our travels in ...

... and all this beautiful tile is covered with dust! Sweeping is hopeless. Dust mopping helps. Today I bought a thing to use on the floor&#8212;wet, so all the dust that the broom and the mops miss can get washed up. I like going barefoot in the house, but notice these blasted little fleas like to bite tender ankles. So, I&#8217;m mopping and washing and trying to get rid of the little biting bugs. I have to chill out about the tile!<br><br>You can hardly buy ...

... mental issues until he started accosting people with chocolate bars, such was the commotion he made as he got on.<br><br>For an hour or so these beautiful fields continued on either side of us. Little road-side shacks, small shops every now and then, more merchins, farms, little villages. After about two hours we began our ascent into the mountains. Every so often there were absolutely breath-taking views of the valley below as we snaked around it ...

... sweet goodies all day....yaa see you back in cali 20 lbs heavier...till then byyyyyeeeeee<br><br><br>cuenca day 2<br>woooow so sketch man turns out to be sketch. shocker....so we arrive back to the hostel at the early hour of 11pm after walking around and dinner, only to come to a locked closed gate which our key doesn´t work for...PANIC. so we begin to ring the doorbell frantically and then im yelling in spanish that we need to get in ...

... screwdrivers m*de with the key ingredient of diluting or*nge. One of the girls w*s * bit pished so we took her home, where I h*d to st*y behind to m*ke sure she went into her room, there being * pool *nd *ll *nd ended up *rguing for 40 mins, where fin*lly t*king the mor*l highground h*d the door sl*mmed in my f*ce. H*ppy, I m*de to go b*ck to the Columbi*n b*r only to find th*t *fter w*iting *nother 40 mins for the t*xi th*t only se*mus *nd wes were ...