Coming to terms with another large night I cooked some breakfast at the hostel, packed & made the bus by around 10.30am. I was slightly worried that if it took as long as the bus from Quito I would be cutting it fine to get my flight and I wasn’t wrong.
We didn’t leave until around 11am and stopped so many times for so long that the journey took nearly 5 hours. This meant I was pushing it to catch the local bus for a further 2 hours to the airport. That said, all worked out and for less than $5 I was able to commute from Banos, via Quito right through the airport! The Avianca desk was check in chaos and as expected our flight to Lima was delayed. In all honesty I didn’t mind as it would mean my layover in the airport would be reduced. Either way I was safely on the ground in Lima, preparing for a nap in the food court of the airport before midnight.
