It was just under a five hour journey from Guayaquil to Cuenca, and the buses did not compare to the their Peruvian counterparts. Oh well, we could suck it up for such a short trip. Legs a little cramped and bad music blaring followed by movies dubbed in Spanish, it was what we'd generally come to expect from this sort of transport. We finally arrived in the dark, grateful to be off the bus. They opened up the luggage compartment and WHOOSH- the most terrible sme...

Finally, we're in Ecuador which is a good thing since at this point we fly out in just over a week. The flight, as far as flying goes, was fine. Smooth, no problems, good-looking man sitting beside me with a good-looking friend who kept coming over to chat with him; five hours went quickly. We got off the plane in Guayaquil and there were photographers everywhere. I turned to Dair and said, "Hey, they must've known we were coming!". Then as we were exiting the ...