Traveling through Ecuador by bus is certainly not as nice or as easy as traveling through Colombia. Granted, it is definitely cheaper, but the buses usually suck… there are no bathrooms on the bus (even long distance ones), no A/C (open your window to cool you off, even though it’s going to piss off the people behind you!), and they are really old, rickety, and often smell bad. What’s more is that it seems like you have to change buses a hundred times just to get from one city to another. As I said before, it took 5 buses to get from the mountains in the middle of the country to the coastline. Well, our trip from Canoa to Puerto Lopez was ONLY coastline, but it still took several forms of transportation: 1 bus to San
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