One of the many beautiful plazas in the city.

We took a night-time bus tour of the city which turned out to be less than we’d hoped. We did get a nice view of this church.

We were joined on the tour by Lainie and Miro, whom we met on the beach a few weeks ago.

Just can’t get enough of the beautiful buildings in the old part of the city.

We found a huge local market that we spent the better part of an hour wandering around in. The juice stands with their rows of blenders at the ready were more appealing to us than the unrefrigerated meat hanging from hooks.

Jen and I visited Las Cajas national park, taking advantage of babysitting to go on a longer hike than we normally can.

Our hike was at around 13,000 feet, but since it’s at the equator there was lots of strange vegetation.

Selfie!

I’ve never been to Scotland, but with the rain and fog, it seemed like what I would expect hiking there.

We took Quinn on a ride on the Nariz del Diablo, a short section of the recently restored rail line from Guayaquil to Quito.

We had some rain, but it made for some good photos.

This short section of the rail line had to climb a large, steep mountain. Switchbacks are used – the train moves forward on one section of track, then the crew throws a switch and it reverses up the next stretch.