Question for the day…How many people can you fit into a VW Vanagon type vehicle?(Answer at the end of the blog…)After our beach time in Huanchaco (mom, dad - because of you I first wrote Huangchaco!), we hopped on yet another night bus to Huaraz, eight hours south. This bus ride was much more enjoyable, as it boasted ¨semi-camas¨(partial beds) and even had a stewardess of sorts. We still did not manage to sleep much because of getting tossed...

Hello now from Peru… Would like to begin with a thank you to everyone for following allong with us now for over a month! It has been wonderful to receive all of your messages, it is refreshing to be able to have words from a familiar place…you all have made us chuckle out loud in a "cibercafe" on numerous occasions. As I mentioned we are now in Peru, Trujillo to be exact. We've been here for a few days now and are staying at a little bea...

We have temporarily landed here in Loja, Ecuador, five hours south of Cuenca. Arriving here in one piece is certainly a miracle, as the bus ride was definitely the most frightening one to date.The driver was very evidently agitated from the moment he stepped on the bus, and this attitude played out in his driving…jerking around stopped cars, yelling out his window, and speeding up for red lights.The clincher was at hour one when he decided it was a good time to...

We just returned from Cuyabeno Reserve in the Lago Agrio area in northeast Ecuador after 19 hours via motorized canoe and three different buses…one of which was host to a small dog and a parrot at one point in our journey…in addition to all of the town´s school children and us!We arrived in Quito at 4am this morning, checked into a hostel and crashed for a couple of hours.Now here we are catching up on all of our errands - email, bank, and most i...

We are spending our final day in Banos, Ecuador, for tonight we will be heading off on our first night bus ride (11 hours) back up north to Lago Agrio for a 5-day jungle tour. We are travelling along with some new friends we met along the way in Quilotoa, Maya and Rob, from Scotland(and England). It´s been nice to have some English speaking companions for the last week...plus it´s fun to hear all of their little sayings - like ¨having a wee bit o...