Next stop Cuenca.

Driving in the Andes just seems to take forever,  the roads are good but they just twist and turn and up and down the passes constantly. So it takes while to go short distances like to Cuenca took maybe four hours but you look on the map and it doesn't look that far away.
Our place in Cuenca was real nice room with a sitting area in this chaps house, he lived in another house next door and we had the entire place to ourselves. We stayed three day's and explored the city which hs some neat architecture and was clean and had a relaxed feel to it, nothing like Quito.
We did a hike in the mountains at twelve thousand feet and that was nice except for breathing, your lungs burn and just not a good feeling overall at that height.
The room is only $32 a day and he serves a real good breakfast  with secure parking and cross the road we got a lunch of soup, chicken, rice and salad with a fresh mango juice and a bowl of popcorn for $2 each.