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 ...

8m Once again we had an extremely early morning wake up to change to our 4th country of the tour. The hotel staff said goodbye and handed us our little breakfast box which contained a bottle of orange juice, dried fruit, trail mix, potato crisps and a ham and cheese sandwich. Not too shabby. We arrived at Cusco airport and managed to book our bags through to Guayaquil in Ecuador and then boarded the small little plane from Cusco. Looking at the departure board, ...