We left mainland Ecuador by plane and arrived on a small island called St. Cristobal, in the Galápagos. On our arrival we were greeted by the barking of the local sea lions, they are part of the everyday life here and have made pretty much every beach their own. They looked pretty friendly but gave a angry bark if you got too close. And I wasn't about to find out if it was just for show. The first day was spent snorkelling and although the temperature is what y...

After a 24 hour journey with changes at New York and Guayaquil, we landed in Quito and were greeted by a driver who took us to our hostel for the night. The hostel was on the outer suburbs of the city and offered us a bunkbeds for our first night away from home. That night over dinner we met the guys we were going to spend the next month volunteering with, with the hostel owners speaking only Spanish nobody really knew the plan and so we waited until morning to m...