VILCABAMBA - valley of eternal youth
September 21st 2008 Trip to Cuenca on surprisingly comfortable bus, despite playing 2 Sylvester Stallone (in Spanish, claro…) films at volume high enough to create distortion. Scnenery of balana plantations and some very basic rural living conditions, many shacks with pigs tethered outside. Bit alarmed by 2 ft gully at side of road when going through cloud forest, but we made it to Cuenca 4 hours later. Cuenca
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