Before leaving the Galapagos we´d decided to blow the budget and fly to Rio for the last 3 days of Carnival, it was pretty expensive but we just couldn´t resist going. We booked the flights on line and the plan was to fly from the Galapagos to Ecuador on 14th February and then that evening fly out to Rio. Unfortunately the night before we were due to leave we got an email saying there was a problem with the flights and we had to ring to confirm some details. T...

So after getting back from Colca Canyon at 5pm we headed straight to our hostel for a quick shower and to grab our bags as we were heading out that night to start our extra long journey to Ecuador. Our bus was at 7pm and the company who we had bought our tickets from did transfers and were picking us up at 6.15pm. By 6.30pm they still hadn´t arrived so we asked the hostel to phone them for us and their resposne was we had to make our way to the office for our t...