We spent an extra day in Salento as it was my birthday and we found some good looking chocolate cake at Jesus's Cafe the day before. The sky´s downpoured rain that afternoon, so it was good that we weren't awaiting a bus on the streetside anyway. The cake was lovely, they also had a tasty strawberry daquiri that went very well with it.
Dusty, Josh´s good buddy ended up showing up to Salento the night before my birthday. He gave me a small clutch with a pattern on it made by the Kuna indians. That was another nice surpise to end a good day.
After a final cup of coffee at Jesus´s Cafe we headed to the bus station in Armenia. We arrived at the bus station later than we had hoped, the curvy ride...causing quite a bit of nasea took longer than expected. There was only 1 seat available for the bus that we were hoping to catch to the border town between Colombia and Ecuador. Thus we went with the next best option and bought a ticket to Pasto, a town 2 hours or so north of the border. The time was 6pm, We waited 8 or 9 hours for the bus to Pasto to arrive, which sadly happened to be running 3 hours late...uggh.
Eventually we caught the bus to Pasto, followed by a mini bus another couple hours to Ipiales, then finally a taxi across the border. Another taxi took us to the next most immediate town in Ecuador where we literally ran onto a moving bus bound for Quito. We arrived in Quito after midnight and thankfully caught an honest cab driver who took us safely to The Secret Garden Hostel for a reasonable fee. We made it into bed and crashed.
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