Montañita

Amy here. Well after reeeeally long bus rides and a 3 hour $100 cab, we got to Montañita, Ecuador last night at about 11 pm. Seems like the nicest place out of all the cities we passed in Ecuador. Amazing food. All the hostels are like 5 steps from the ocean. I went for a run on the beach this morning, ate a big bowl of fruit, juice, crepe, green tea for under $5, and am writing in a very nice, high tech internet place. I don´t know what this city is like quite yet...seems very hippy-ish. It´s nice and humid and hot (and that´s why we ran away from Bolivia...the cold). They use dollars now in Ecuador as their currency, but sometimes I get a random 5 or 50 Ecuadorian cent piece. All of our American friends from Cusco are in this city too, so Caity is glad for familiar faces. For sure the locals do not speak a word of English and their Spanish is different from Peru so I am having a little difficulty. We want to stay here for a while (1 to 3 weeks) and it seems like a place where we could definitely do that. The only real difficulty now is do I want fresh lobster with seafood sauce or giant shrimp with mango sauce....