Ecuador

We set off from Popayan to the boarder town of Ipiales, lovely bus ride, breathtaking scenery. Ipialyes is a bland stop off point for travelers and goods transport alike, it's an unassuming town it's high and the air is thin flanked by no less than 3 volcanoes and huge mountain peaks. Just yonder the town is a very spectacular church, as describe by Sam "like a castle from Zelda".



At our hotel we had bumped into 2 fellow travelers from the coast of Colombia and made arrangements for the border crossing the next day, we were warned by another traveler there was a 4 hour queue at the boarder so we set of nice and early.

A collectivo was found with great ease and after it was packed, we set off, passport formalities were quick and painless, where was this 4 hour queue ?



Yet another collectivo to Tulcan and then we hopped onto a buss to Quito, how very easy and painless this was.