Ecuador-Bound

I have now been in Salento, in the Zona Cafetera, for 2 nights. It´s the perfect place to relax and get ready for the journey to Ecuador. I plan to catch the night bus to the border this evening and cross into Ecuador in the morning. I have heard the line at the border can be horrendous and I´m not tlooking forward to it!
I´m not sure if I mentioned it, but I decided to give Medellin a miss. After the night bus (12 hours) pulled up into Medellin from Cartagena and I saw what a huge, overwhelming, and smoggy city it appeared to be, a had a mild panic moment and decided to get on another bus immediately and head further south to Armenia. 7 hours later, the bus was cruising through Armenia towards the terminal and I again decided it too was far too big a city. Nevertheless, here I am in Salento, 45 mins further, staying at a coffee plantation-turned hostal. I spent 5 hours yesterday hiking throught the Valle de Cocora, clearing my mind and body from the flurry of activity that was the last few weeks on the coast. The temperature here is cooler, the air much cleaner and fresher. I had to fight a bit with the altitude on the hike, but I´m also suffering a bit of a cold as well so I´m sure that didn´t help.
After landing back into town after the hike, I stopped for a piece of street-pizza and ended up chatting away with a local family. The women let me in on a bit of info about local men- that being that most of them have at least 2 women going at once, sometimes more, and that it´s no big secret to anyone. The one woman´s husband was arguing that it was not true, but based on his grin and that he was joking with me to take him away in my backpack, I´m guessing it is. It was hilarious sitting with them at the pizza stand for an hour or so.
So that´s it for now, the next post I write will likely be from Ecuador in a couple of days!