2550m Well, there are ways to start your day with cereal and toast. There are ways to start your day with eggs and bacon. There are even ways to start your day with air dried muesli with organic fruits and herbal tea (not sure why, but some do). And then there is the way of starting your day in Cuenca. With a colonel of the Ecuadorean army walking around with a nice new Glock at his hip, three police vehicles in front of your hotel with soldiers on the street wi...

2550m This morning saw Guayaquil overcast yet again with a mist and slate grey skies. Breakfast done and our driver and guide arrived to take us to Cajas National Park and on to Cuenca. It turns out that the guide and driver are husband and wife and just got back in from Utah last night and live in Cuenca. We left the city and drove along some of the wetlands spying herons, egrets, spoonbills, buzzards and even a lonely kingfisher. The sides of the road became ...