Ecuador

Colombia continued living up to its' unexpected high standards for traveling. We started out early from Pasto south.

Firstly, big thanks for the support from everyone (to the biking community who send us regular emails and Marcus for your calls - thanks for keeping u

We started off the week looking at options to repair Al's bike.

We packed up our stuff and leaf most of it, along with our bikes in Ibarra and headed south to Quito by bus.

After a week of rain, we headed south to Banos and as fate would have it, found a cheap hotel just outside a motorbike hire place - talk about unfair,

After getting one of the mechanics at Ibarra to remove Alan's bike suspension, we headed back to Quito.

We rode to Quito without too many issues and headed back to our favourite hostal.

Amazon Road (E45) or Troncal Amazónica was the road we took south. This touches the amazon basin but it is mainly in the foothills.

We spent a couple nights in this cute small town in the foothills. It was very touristy but it was great to chill out for a couple days.

Well after meeting some really nice people and places in the Amazonian side, our opinion of Ecuador was slowly improving.