Cuenca and Goodbye to family

Cuenca is Ecuador's third largest city and very nice it is too. We spent a few days here wandering, admiring the colonial architecture, eating, drinking and visiting thermal baths and the ruins at Ingapirca.

The local museum was fairly interesting for its indigenous cultural history and very much so for its extensive gardens arranged around Inca ruins.
Not sure what this chap did to deserve the shrunken-head treatment. There were a few of these, about the size of a grapefruit.
The ruins were above and below a typical terraced hillside with traditional crops laid out and views over downtown Cuenca.

Cuenca was also where we said goodbye to John, Erica, Joan and Brian. We had a great couple of weeks holidaying with them in the Andes and, stomach problems aside, we believe they very much enjoyed themselves too.
Bye bye!