Three-Restaurant Town

And here we are now back in the cold, misty highlands, in the market town of Otavalo where we have so far spent a very pleasant three days, the only bad thing is that half the restaurants in our guide books have closed down so we are eating a lot of pizza and some giant sandwiches. This town is all about the shopping and handicrafts and we have indulged in a little shopping ourselves. Our hotel is 1 hr walk out of town, at nearly 3000m pretty cold at night but with 3 blankets and a logfire it is just about warm enough. When we arrived there were no other guests and we were outnumbered by the hotel dogs, Milky, Pacha, Rumi and Chuy, which hang around drooling whenever we eat there. We are in the totally cool penthouse apartment (in that it is the whole top floor) complete with our own balcony and everything.