Vilcabamba

Saturday the 16th of October 2010
We reached Vilcabamba late at night and spent some time looking for a hostel. We finally found one complete with swimming pool, sauna and Jacuzzi. After settling down we returned to the center of the town for dinner. We found the center in a party atmosphere. The local soccer team had won the (provincial) soccer league for the first time in its history. On such an occasion, things would look different in Mieve city, but the locals seemed to enjoy the DJ (of the kind that in Belgium, you would only find in a small village when the farmers daughters marries the local bakery’s son, or at the color party in Stevoort) as much as we enjoyed the food.

Sunday the 17th of October 2010
We planned nothing else but to relax on Sunday. We were looking at a long bus ride to Peru in the evening. So we took our time in the sauna, the whirlpool and the swimming pool. I spent some time writing on the blog and met the author of this blog in the pc room. Not long thereafter we found ourselves discussing the authors of the 9-11 attacks and the control of world power. On a travel like this you meet more people that want to change the world or have somewhat different opinions on stuff. In this view, we also met a German-Canadian that kept us busy for at least 45 minutes explaining his life. He started talking to us because he found we looked friendly. We let the guy (+75 years old, moved to Canada from Germany after the war and living in Vilcabamba since a few months) finish his story to complete our good dead for the day and contribute to world peace. After his story, we moved to the bus station where Vilcatours brought us to Loja. From there we would take a night bus to Piura (Peru). Our Ecuadorian adventure had come to an end...