ICloud restore from iOS 6 to iOS7 problem

Hi guys,
I have a problem, which I'm probably sure no one of you have encountered before. (But I still have hope).
Last Saturday ( Nov 2nd ), my iPhone 5 16GB (Version 6.1.4) got stolen.
My luck was that I paid for additional storage on iCloud (25GB instead of just 5), so I can back up all my photos (more than 1300) with no worries.
On Monday, I've purchased the iPhone 5S with 32GB, running iOS 7.0.3.
After restoring my iCloud backup of the iPhone 5 (with 5.8GB of data, watch pictures below), to my new iPhone, I've waited for my photos to restore. but they didn't.
All my contacts, messages, notes, apps, settings, everything got restored, except my precious photos and videos.
What I got, is about 40 photos, which the oldest one is from Oct 6th.
I remember that from these 5.8GB of storage, about 2GB or so, belong to my photos.
What I have now, is a about 40 images, with a 5.8 of backup on my iCloud, that basically restored 3.8GB of data.
As you can see on the photos below, the iPhone 5S, has almost the same amount of GB (5.6) when it performed the restore, so I know these photos are out there somewhere.
Can anyone, please, help me out??
Thanks a lot!
David Dudi Jana,
Just to clarify -
Dudi 5 - iPhone 5
Dudi 5S - iPhone 5S
Dudi - iPhone 4S.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
When you restore certain data is put back onto the device and it then restarts allowing you to use it while it downloads everything else in the background. Are you sure you have given the restore enough time.

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