Day 8: Last day in Ecuador today :( it really is a stunning country and I highly recommend it, it's a real shame that I'm only in places for a day or two because I'd like to do so much more than I have time for. Had a lie in this morning, then headed to a place called Tutto Freddo for $3 breakfast (yoghurt, granola/fruit, juice + hot chocolate) Next some of us hopped in a taxi and headed to the ZOO

Day 7: HAPPY EARTH DAY EVERYONE

Day 6: This morning we all had a lie in, ( or everyone else did, I was coughing) popped to a cafe for a breakfast, then hopped on a bus to Palion del Diablo, or the Devil's cauldron, which is a huge and famous waterfall just outside of Baños, you have to walk for a kilometre down a rocky path to get there, and entry is $1.50 but I would have paid so much more. You go up these windy steps right next to the waterfall, and some bits are just caves that you have t...

Day 5: We started off nice and early completely relaxing our bags for the bus ride to Baños; we got a lift into Tena from Pimpiladia (the place in the jungle we were staying) in the least ventilated van of all time, I've also developed a very persistent cough (which I blame my mother for giving to me) so I'm continually spluttering through bus journeys and the night

Day two: Today we headed to the jungle, it was a 5 hour bus journey along windy mountain roads, but the views were absolutely spectacular; all kinds of trees, waterfalls and rivers. We're staying in the Amazon, about 45 mins away from a town called Tena, in this beautiful little wooden hut that you have to follow a secret path to get to, currently everyone is chilling in the hammocks in the main area (yes, there's hammocks) and writing their journals, kinda ma...