Cuenca, Ecuador's 3rd largest city, very beautiful, definitely European in style, cobbled streets, boutiques and all that jazz. In the morning we walked over to the museum of shrunken heads, declined a free trial from the curator! Discovered that Ecuador is a small country, very divided, geographically speaking, into three distinct areas. The pacific coast region to the west. The central highlands, the Andes. And the amazon jungle basin over the east. Its one of...

Our visit to Rio B was to ride on the roof of a train. Friday morning and were watching Ecuador drift by, lying on the roof of a train, running along tracks that were built in 1903 and looked like they hadn´t been repaired since 1903. When the train de-railed no-on was surprised, the train guards knew the routine and began to dig out the rotten sleeper so the track would drop lower. They chucked rocks and leaves under the wheel, revved the engine and 10 minu...