The four
of us got a bus to Cali, where we met more friends from Salento. Charlotte made
spicy fried rice for dinner and we had an early night, playing a few games of
trumps.
We woke early Friday and headed off to a big shopping centre in search of a new phone for Victoria and a backpack for Charlotte. We headed out Friday night, but not before a group of about 10 of us went out to a shawarma restaurant, where me and Tao shared a huge meat platter meant for four people. Still no kebab tho :(. The Saturday was fairly chilled, watched the rugby had a few beers and lay by the pool, before attempting a walk to a Christ statue high up in the mountains, we failed rushed back to the hostel and our big group got a bus to Ipiales.
Over 12 hours later
we arrived in Ipiales and got a taxi to see the church in the gorge Las Lajas Cathedral . The group split,
with the four of us staying in Ipiales for lunch and the rest heading for
Quito. We decided we were going to stay somewhere between Ipiales and Quito for
one night and found a family run B&B that was pretty rural so was going to
be difficult to get to. After lunch we got another taxi to the border, stamped
out of Colombia and headed for Ecuador customs. Unfortunately, the officer that
had served Charlotte and Victoria had just started his shift and forgot to
change the date on his stamp so the girls were stamped as having left the 17th
and not the 18th like Rachel and I.
After some great Spanglish from me explaining how we were all together
and the girls hadn't mysteriously disappeared for a day, we were left into
Ecuador. A 3$ taxi to the bus station, an argument with some local bus guys
over trying to overcharge us, we were on our way towards Tonibamba. Some more
Spanglish and I'd arranged for us to be dropped off close to Tonibamba. Three hours later and several 'are we nearly
theres' later we were signalled to get off the bus. It had just started lashing
and we'd been dropped off at the side of the motor way, nowhere near anything,
more Spanglish lessons needed! After amount 10 minutes a taxi finally picked us
up and took us to Loma Wasi for 8$. Let's see what Ecuadors got.
The finished dinner even got some meat.
Rachel and Charlotte cooking food.
We woke early Friday and headed off to a big shopping centre in search of a new phone for Victoria and a backpack for Charlotte. We headed out Friday night, but not before a group of about 10 of us went out to a shawarma restaurant, where me and Tao shared a huge meat platter meant for four people. Still no kebab tho :(. The Saturday was fairly chilled, watched the rugby had a few beers and lay by the pool, before attempting a walk to a Christ statue high up in the mountains, we failed rushed back to the hostel and our big group got a bus to Ipiales.
Not the statue we were searching for.
A tractor blocking the road in Tonibamba.
A cow blocking the road in Tonibamba.
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