After 4 hours, the remaining 14 chapters of the book His Lordship and hundreds of sweets we were in Ecuador's capital - Quito. The bus ride was fairly painless apart from Phoebe's Tourette's like twitch whilst she was asleep which saw me get a kick to the leg a couple of times. The bus terminal we arrived at was still quite the distance from the backpacking area of Quito so we all huddled in a taxi. Well the taxi was more like a van with four of us crammed in the...

You may be wondering why I have not done a blog for Guayaquil. Well I will cut straight to the point and tell you that it was a grim place so we got straight the hell out of there. We arrived in the city I still can't pronounce at 9am after a 9 hour bus ride where we crossed the border with relative ease but also had to encounter a random Police search. The first impression of Guayaquil was actually decent they had a cracking bus terminal which reminded me a lot ...