In Otavala

Well, we are now in Otavalo. Our flight was uneventful (the way we like it). A taxi ride to the main bus terminal in Quito and then fr $2.60 each, a 2.5 hr bus ride through the mountains t Otavalo.

The weather is great - hovers around 20C most of the time. When we landed in Quito this morning it was 12C. It has rained a bit during the night and a few sprinkles during the day but nothing much.

Our place in Otavalo is very quaint - nice open court yard with many plants and birds flying about. Out room is small, but nice and clean.
We ventured out to a great little restaurant called Mi Otavalito - local place where they serve very good Ecuadorian food.

We then wandered arund in preparation for our bust market day tomorrow. We found where the animal narket will be held so that will be our first stop tomorrow morning at arund 7AM. After that will be the handicraft, etc markets throughout the town. They say you cannot find a piece of sidewalk on Saturdays due to the market stalls - so it should be fun! Depending on how tired we are, we may head to Peguche Waterfall for a hike in the afternoon.

Sunday we plan on heading to Cuicocha lake to hike for the day- they say the views are out of this world with snow capped volcanoes, lakes formed when the ice within the volcano melted and much more.

Well, that´s it for now - we´ll likely be able to update a couple times mre before heading to the Galapagos so stay tuned.

We are also trying to upload some pictures (but we´re not sure if it will work or not!)

Ciao for now