Inca Real Cuenca

... international mobile phone network, we very nearly missed each other, but a chance encounter on a bus sorted that out. We had dinner with them in one of Cuenca's semi deserted restaurants - good pizza and freshly made ravioli!<br><br>Accommodation Price: 4 Bootes<br><br>Bed: 3 Bootes (a little cold)<br><br>Shower: 4 Bootes

... approaching the jungle so the weather is unpredictable. We stopped at Pailon del Diablo for a cheap set lunch (more soup, chicken and rice), then locked our bikes at the restaurant and walked down to the Diablo waterfall. It was a long way down! The land is owned by some crazy but friendly Italian bloke who started raving about Nietschze at us which was odd, but we just nodded and smiled a lot then got out of there.<br><br>We continued to Rio Negra, all up about 27km from Banos, but by ...

... ons, dus dat was eventjes slikken ;-). We gaan ons mogen aanpassen als we naar Argentinië en Chili gaan... en al zeker als we terug naar België komen...<br><br>Zondag is alles gesloten, dus zijn we naar het oude stadsgedeelte gegaan, hebben we enkele kerken bezocht en een beetje op de markt rondgelopen. Voor de rest van de dag is het op zijn zondags ;-)<br><br>Morgen verlaten we Ecuador. Rond de middag nemen we de bus naar Loja (5u rijden) om van daar de ...

... have been located, wait a few seconds more until you are at a blind rise/blind corner or both.<br>3) At the right moment (i.e. exactly when the gringos are thinking "he'll never try overtaking now") flash your lights like crazy at the truck you have been tailgating at 140km/h, grate into 2nd gear, swerve out into the stream of oncoming oil-tankers and log carriers, and then hoot at then because its ...

... Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador, let alone in Australia. To me it was a dream pitch and I was already wondering how I could become a coach here. Fantasies aside we asked the gentleman for recommended travel to Puerto Chino. He said he could get someone to take us to three different sites for $40, we knocked him down to $30, and within minutes he had called Leonardo who arrived to collect us in a new Toyota UTE with two rows of seats, or otherwise known as an open back ...

... been embarrassing. It also crossed my mind that it could be malaria as the symptoms seemed to match and only the fact that I was too exhausted meant that I didn't go to the doctor. <br><br>Anyway I fairly quickly got fed up of my surroundings. I had wanted to spend some time in Cuenca enjoying the town, visiting the various churches and museums and the nearby Inca site of Ingapirca but I decided I had wasted enough time and had to cut my losses. A ...

... here! I found runners for $10 a meter. They just cut it off a roll for you&#8230; Sigh. Wiggle your toes on your rug now and think of me!<br><br>Q: Why are the people so nice here?<br><br>A: Don&#8217;t know, but almost all of them have been pretty incredible. They have incredible patience and try to help me understand with my limited Spanish! We draw pictures and pantomime a lot. They are so mellow. The guys work very hard. They dug a ditch next door and ...

... to me sat a nice girl who kept feeding me dried banana crisp things. I do wish I could have stopped and taken photos; I kept leaning out the window and trying to snap the valley at the appropriate moment, but it was impossible to get a good photo. It soon became much drier and dustier, and then visibility reduced as we hit clouds. Our driver was a bit of a maniac who had a penchant for overtaking slower vehicles round blind corners. At one point he made ...

... 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 ...

... We went on to find the others who h*d moved on to * regg*e b*r, not being *ble to find * t*xi (this w*s one weird little town) we fl*gged down the c*r of the town&#8217;s self *ppointed God. We were * bit suspicious th*t following our lift to the regg*e b*r th*t this s*me God *ctu*lly h*d to p*y to get in, bit of divine intervention perh*ps. Th*t w*s the l*st godly thing *bout th*t night, the b*r w*s *ll c*vernous *nd on split levels *nd I liked it ...