Things I have learned while travelling:- 1. When the man in the tour shop says the treks are all "easy & flat", don´t believe him, he is lying.2. You will never have your antibacterial 'no water needed' handwash with you when you really need it & it will lie unused in your rucksack.3. Your camera will run out of charge on the same day that your IPod and phone run out of charge and your chargers will be in your luggage 3 hours away in the jungl...

After leaving the animal rescue centre with 3 other volunteers, we headed to the spa town of Banos which has a number of hot springs due the the huge amount of active volcanoes in the region. We chilled out for a day & relished the fact that we didn´t have to scrub anything & then booked a couple of days in the Amazon jungle near Puyo. We visited an animal sanctuary with a bunch of very cheeky monkeys who have a bad habit of going through your pockets a...