On the road again

I spent the weekend in the colonial city of Cuenca, having flown down from Quito. We flew over a snow capped volcano and the pilot tipped the plane so we could see into the cone. It was very cool.

Cuenca is a neat city, I spent the day on Friday at a really cool museum which is built next to some ruins. The other night I was chatting with a very nice older man at the hostel bar. The bar and restaurant is very popular with locals. He grew up here, in Cuenca, but now lives in NYC. We met for lunch yesterday and then walked around a bit. It was nice to get a insiders view of the area.

I´m starting to price out flights to Peru. They´re pretty costly flying from Ecuador, so I may need to suck it up and take a bus across the border and then fly domestically. In the meantime I´m heading out this afternoon to a very cool mountain town called Vilcabamba (still in Ecuador). From what I´ve read and heard it´s a very low key place with beautiful mountain scenery. I picked up a brochure for this place: http://izhcayluma.com/ yeah, I´m down with some cheap massages. I won´t get there until probably tomorrow, as I´ll most likely stay the night in the town of Loja along the way..to break up the 7 hour bus trip.

Next week, in Lima there is a Pink Floyd concert. I´m going to try to time it so I´m there for that.

Ciao for now. Love to everyone.