Another visit to Secret Garden hostel and it is starting to feel like home! I had an easy day in rainy Quito only venturing out for cash and a bit of shopping before returning to the hostel to catch up on admin and relax on the roof terrace. I had left my next destination up to the laundry gods - if my laundry was ready the same day I was heading to Colombia, if not to Otovalo.... To my great surprise my laundry was ready when I went to collect it at 6pm so the ...

Arriving at the new airport means that you are an awfully long way from the centre of Quito. Finding the cheapest way to my hostel was the first challenge and it turned out to be the airport shuttle to the old airport (on the slowest bus in history but it did have wifi!) and then a taxi (mine turned out to be an unlicensed one). Arriving at Secret Garden I was allowed to dump my bags in my room before trooping up 3 storeys to the reception on the roof terrace. T...