On our final day before we start our accent of Cotopaxi we visited Otavalo market on a Saturday which is the best day for Gringos. We boarded the bus from the terminal and had to pay our departure fee, after leaving the terminal we found everyone else gets on just outside to avoid the fee. We though we would have a quick journey but the bus stopped alot in pretty much any place someone wanted to get on or off, there didn’t seem to be any bus stops on this route.

The market was huge covering so many streets, I’ve not seen anything quite like it before, it was split up into a food/veg section, a restaurant section and many stalls selling knitted and wooden products. We were disappointed we couldn’t find Guinea Pig but we still had plenty of time to find it.

The next day we picked up our washed and folded washing that had cost 40cents per kilo and tasted our delicious free breakfast of 2 slices of cold half cooked toast, chemically enhanced pineapple juice with froth on top straight from their washing up bowl and cafe con leche which was nasty black and after adding milk found it was nasty white as well. That was it for Quito which means hi ho hi ho it’s up Cotopaxi we go…