We said goodbye to Bahia at 8:00. At the bus station was easy to figure out which bus was going to Quito. It was a seven hour bus ride but once we left the coast the landscape became green and lush. We past large plantations growing bananas, cattle farms and small villages. At one point our bus had to wait for a herd of cattle to get off the road before it could pass. As we got higher in the Andes the switchbacks became more frequent and we saw beautiful waterfalls cascading off the mountain ridges. An added bonus was the bus's movie theme was not The Fast and The Furiest 1-2--3-4 but romantic comedies. They were all in Spanish and in two of the three movies the child dies. We got to our hotel in Quito about 3. We picked a different hotel in the Old Town area for a change. It's very nice and has two rooms. (Gives us both a break ). We walked around the old city and visited more churches and museums. As poor as these people are, they have given a lot of money to the Catholic Church. At night we visited a neat part of old town called Ronda. It was filled with small artisan shops and little restaurants that all had live entertainment. We went to one that was tucked away off the street and they had an outstanding musician playing the Spanish guitar. Very romantic but ¿ Dónde esta mi hombre?
We have booked a tour for Otavalo for tomorrow.
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