Woke up this morning, and needed to get directions to go to Midal del Mundo (Middle of the World), and thus knocked on Roberto´s room door.
He opened the door and apologised for waking me up last night. He had a slight bruised on his face and he explained that while he and his friend was on their way home in a taxi last night, the taxi had stopped at a traffic light. It was at this time, 2 men with guns suddenly appeared and entered the taxi.
They took his phone and money, punched him in his face and sprayed some pepper spray, before dropping him off the street (his friend apparently was let off first) in the middle of no where and drove off in the taxi.
The funny thing was, a police car appeared not long after that, but rather than taking him to the police station to make a statement, or sending him home, they just got him another taxi and asked the taxi to send him home!!! Very strange!
As he had no money on him, he had to come back and borrow from his brother Francisco to pay for the taxi, and thinking he was in the bedroom, woke me up instead (he didn´t know Francisco has actually given up his room to me, and he was sleeping in Roberto´s room instead).
I have previously heard of people being held at gunpoint while in South America, but never so recent especially around the time when I was in town. I have heard Ecuador wasn´t safe and thus my trip dates in Ecuador was only limited to 8 days (just to get to Colombia by bus), but having a couple of such unpleasant incidents happening to not just me, but people around me in a short time is scary!
He opened the door and apologised for waking me up last night. He had a slight bruised on his face and he explained that while he and his friend was on their way home in a taxi last night, the taxi had stopped at a traffic light. It was at this time, 2 men with guns suddenly appeared and entered the taxi.
They took his phone and money, punched him in his face and sprayed some pepper spray, before dropping him off the street (his friend apparently was let off first) in the middle of no where and drove off in the taxi.
The funny thing was, a police car appeared not long after that, but rather than taking him to the police station to make a statement, or sending him home, they just got him another taxi and asked the taxi to send him home!!! Very strange!
As he had no money on him, he had to come back and borrow from his brother Francisco to pay for the taxi, and thinking he was in the bedroom, woke me up instead (he didn´t know Francisco has actually given up his room to me, and he was sleeping in Roberto´s room instead).
I have previously heard of people being held at gunpoint while in South America, but never so recent especially around the time when I was in town. I have heard Ecuador wasn´t safe and thus my trip dates in Ecuador was only limited to 8 days (just to get to Colombia by bus), but having a couple of such unpleasant incidents happening to not just me, but people around me in a short time is scary!
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