"TO TRAVEL IS TO DISCOVER THAT EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES". Aldous Huxley

We left the hotel just as the weather was clearing, we passed through Pasto, a charming big city, arrived at Ipiales we passed it and immediately came to the border.
We got immigration and customs over in five minutes, less than a km after we went to immigration in Ecuador, filled the forms, they stamped the passports and sent us to customs and in ten minutes they did the import of the bikes, made a photocopy for 20 cents of the document and handed all other copies, passport, licenses and bike title one of each and that was that.
Taking a few photos of the mountains we calmly arrived at Ibarra, quite a large city. What can I say of the Andes that hasn't been said, it enchants us.
Before arriving into the city I had seen a good hotel Hosteria El Prado, the bikes are safe for $US36.60(Ecuador has adopted the US dollar as their national currency) everything in the hotel was first rate. I highly recommend it, included is an American breakfast, and Internet.
The food at restaurants is nice and prices are reasonable, the unleaded gas is $US1,48 per gallon (I had thought that it was the litre and that it was expensive but since it is the gallon it is the cheapest i have found yet, comparing all countries I visited)
I got myself up to date with inbox messages. We had a delicious supper and went to bed.

NOTE: We crossed all of Colombia in various forms of transport and never once got our 15 minutes of fame, we weren't kidnapped, robbed, stabbed, we weren't even offered some grams of coke. We passed the border quickly and incident free.

Now that I am in Ecuador I am getting to know better the issues and problems between both this country and neighbouring Colombia.

SAME TEXT HERE IN SPANISH: Día 35 lunes 3

Dejamos el hotel cuando estaba aclarando, pasamos por Pasto, una linda gran ciudad, llegamos a Ipiales lo pasamos y enseguida estaba la frontera, hicimos inmigración y aduana en cinco minutos, nos fuimos a menos de un km a inmigración en Ecuador, llenamos el formulario y nos sellaron los pasaportes, nos mandaron a aduana y en diez minutos nos hicieron la importación de las motos, saque una fotocopia por 20 cent, del documento y se lo entregue junto con fotocopias de pasaporte,licencia y titulo de la moto, una de cada una y se termino.

Sacando fotos de las montañas y tranquilos llegamos a Ibarra, una ciudad bastante grande, que puedo decir de los andes que ya no lo haya dicho, nos encanta, ya antes del centro vi Hosteria El Prado un buen hotel, las motos seguras por 36.60(Usan el dollar americano) todo de primera H.R con desayuno americano e Internet,, la comida en el restaurante es rica y a precio razonables, la gasolina sin plomo esta a 1.48 (Pensé que era el litro y que estaba charrísima) pero es por gallon, por lo tanto es la mas barata de todos los países que he visitado. Me puse al día con los mensajes.

Tuvimos una rica cena y a la cama.

Cruzamos toda Colombia, en varios medios de transporte y nunca tuvimos nuestro 15 segundos de fama, no nos secuestraron, robaron, apuñalarnos, ni siquiera nos ofrecieron una línea o dos de coca, pasamos la frontera sin ningún problema y ya en Ecuador me entere de los problemas entre estos dos países