After finishing the volunteer work I headed back down to Riobamba and on to the beautiful town of Cuenca. I walked through the streets of town early on sunday morning, women were setting up stands with flowers, an old man shaved in front of the mirrow at the entrance of his panama-hat shop, women in tradicional colourful skirts were walking by the cathedral facing the "Parque Calderon". We found a nice bar where we spend a lot of time, too. Early monday morning I took a bus back up to Chunchi to join in for a hike to the "lost pyramid" of Puñay, certainly the highlight this week...we climbed up for about 2-3 hours till we reached a rock where you had an amazing view: the clouds were actuelly below, huging the surrounding mountains...we walked up the rest through "fields of gold" to the very top, where we camped out to see the sunset- with the clouds below- looking like a huge salt lake or a foaming ocean - STUNNING!!!!!! I didn't sleep much that night because it was quite cold and I was relieved when I finally saw the sun reappear behind the mountains in the morning, but it was soooo worth it !! I did quite a lot of hikes this week, I've been to several National Parks like Cajas and Podocarpus, spotting birds ( cheeky hummingbirds who would stop for a second right in front of you just to be off the very next moment) and just being out in nature ( the word relax doesn't fit though - too much hiking).  The last place in Ecuador I've been to was Vilcabamba, were I did some horsebackriding, before I took a night bus to the peruvian border, sneaked across it at 3.15 this morning and headed straight to a city called Chiclayo, in dusty Peru......