After the excitement of the jungle we spent a quiet couple of days in Baños, only visiting the El Pailon del Diablo waterfall, before heading to the colonial city of Cuenca. This is a beautiful city, lovely buildings and nice shops. We visited the Pumapungo museum and Inca ruins. Nothing too exciting apart from the section devoted to the ‘Headshrinkers’ - tribes in the Amazon who used to remove and shrink the heads of their enemies in order to gain their power and appease their gods. There were real shrunken heads on show! Next we left Ecuador and headed into Peru via Tumbes, a crazy border town, to the beach resort of Punta Sal. We were amazed at how barren the Peruvian coast line is, hardly a plant in sight. Punta Sal was a great place,
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