Cuenca follow-up: I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the Gran Hotel in Cuenca is a nice quiet place that really does a great job – all for $30 a night including breakfast.
We met another interesting – but not like the crazy people- guy who was staying at the same hotel. His name is Mark and he is from Cambridge in England. He is 6’ 7” tall and is taking a year to bicycle all over the place. He began in Alaska and rode down to Vancouver before flying down to Quito and riding to Cuenca. We were able to pass on our Peru book to him as he is headed that way whenever his new bike tires clear customs in Ecuador. There must be some special reason why tires got their attention, but I’m sure an appropriate size bribe would free them up.
We walked over to a local bar/restaurant with him and had a couple bottles of wine which we had to drink from coffee cups as you can’t drink booze in bars in Ecuador on Sunday after 4 PM. He ended up getting directions from us to the pizza place where we met the crazies earlier. We can’t decide if he was hungry or looking for some spice for his own blog that his friends and family regularly critique.
The trip to Banos: The bus rides today totaled just under 8 hours. Luckily Ecuador is a lot easier on the eyes than Peru was.
We are glad to be in Banos where we will get to do some hiking as we are surrounded by mountains and our hotel –La Casa Verde is right along a river. The New Zealanders that run the place really did a great job building and outfitting this place. If you come to Ecuador you will come to Banos and you must stay here. We finally found some local 80% dark chocolate – it is fabulous! We’re looking forward to hanging out and relaxing.
More later....
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