The first pic shows the view from a cafe halfway up the mountain near Banos. It is owned by a Swiss, who actually worked as a kindergarden teacher in Davos Glaris at some stage in her former life☺️
I had an animated conversation with her about life in Ecuador - until my stomach 'caught up with me'😟😝. Time out, back to hotel, lie very low for a while🙃
There's also a pic of the kind of 'bus stops' (this is the exit of a motorway actually) where you wait for overland coaches. They are comfy enough, you can travel all day for about $5 - and very often I was the only 'gringo' on the bus.Read more