We left Black Sheep at 9:30 and got to Vilcabamba at 8:30. You can't really drink water on the bus since you never know if you will get the chance to get off and use the bathroom (let alone the one on the bus!) So it was a long, uncomfortable day.
We take a cab to the lodge about 20 minutes out of town, since its unpaved, and our driver drops us off at the sign. We can see a bridge and a driveway but that is about it since it was pitch black out. We got out or flashlight and went to where the hostel should have been. In front of us was a restaurant with two walls, tables knocked over, an old truck that may or may not have still run, and another building all boarded up. Now they mentioned they were doing repairs but this looked abandoned and certainly they made no comment like "its kinda hard to find so what you wanna do is...".
We tried some of the trails near by, but they all just seemed to be hiking trails. One had a sign for Cabinas 1, 2, and 3 but it was knocked over and provided no arrow. Stray dogs and bats flashed in front of our light.
We did this for about an hour, fearing the dog, before finding a house with a light on. They were able to radio the hostel and I guy came down to get us. He took us much farther down the now lit trail with the Cabinas sign to our hostel, not really getting what he put us through. "I'm sorry you couldn't find it, that's why we have lights up." Turn them on, idiot!!! I was all ready to yell this at him, but he was so dopey, I couldn't. His wife made us dinner though, which was nice, but didn't make up for it.
The next morning we discovered the area we had explored was beautiful. That meant more hiking. SO much hiking these days!
Gillian likes fruit, not so much the food they served us at the lodge. We did have our own cabin and at night mammals would crawl around on the roof.
The river was swarming with butterflies. Our pictures didn't really capture it though.
There were a lot of weird rock pillars like this.
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