No Fixed Plans

Our bus arrived at 8:50am after being delayed 50 minutes however we still got to the hotel around 6pm. We weren’t able to do much on the bus due to it being a public bus and it only doing minimal bathroom stops. 

We went to dinner around 7pm where we watched the Ecuador World Cup game and saw them draw and how different teams react to that before we headed off to bed. 

In the morning, majority of the group decided to head off on a half day tour of the national park in Cuenca, however there was a couple of us who wanted a slow day (and didn’t want to pay the $40-65USD to do it) so we stayed behind. Me and one other went for a brunch at a different hotels cafe where we were seated upstairs and got a good view of the new cathedral. After eating we went and saw all the architecture inside of the cathedral and ended up hearing the end of the sermon before we went for a wander around outside, trying to find the Cuenca sign. We stopped in a $2 type shop to get some nail polish as one of the guys had made a comment the day before about letting the girls paint his nails. 

We ended up looking up where the Cuenca sign was and made the 15 minute walk over there. It’s positioned outside of a market and we went to look at the stalls. I ended up buying earrings, however this was more due to the fact that I needed an earring back as I had lost one. We made our way back to the hotel where we dealt with checkouts (I checked out, she paid for a late checkout) and we hung out in her room a bit, looking at the photos that our group had uploaded. 

We then took our books to read in the public park for a couple hours before putting them away and meeting the rest of our group for an early dinner. Afterwards we all hung around before our 7:30pm meeting where our tour leader explained what the next few days would look like before we made our way to our overnight bus.