It’s been a while since the last update ! End of Feb we got to Cuenca, pretty colonial town, after taking the famous train ride called “Nariz del Diabolo” (the Devil’s nose) . Every tourist to the central sierra of Ecuador has one objective : get up at 5.30am, run to the last functioning train station in the country, race straight past the perfectly comfortable carriages and, instead, climb up to the where they can sit on the cold, hard me...

Hello everyone,Well its time for the next installment of our journey through Ecuador. Following on from our adventure in the rainforest, we headed back to Quito. It was a quick visit as we had arranged to meet up with our new friend Rodrigo (our guide from the lodge) to head down to his home town of Tena to spend a day or two partying at Carnival!!Things didnt really go to plan, which was completely my fault (its Andy writing today by the way). Rodrigo called as ...

The Amazonian rainforest ... you hear about it but you don't realise how impressive it is until you get there! When the plane started its descent towards Coca, near the Napo river, you suddenly takes in the enormity of the rainforest. It stretches until the horizon line (the Amazonian basin surface apparently equals the US territory surface) and the forest is really dense and dark, with a cloud of mist hanging above it. As soon as we stepped out of the plane ...

At last some time for an update.... Who said that travelling was easy. 2 weeks on the road and we feel like we've been away for months and we're already dreaming of spending a day of doing nothing :) I must say that waking up at 5.30 every morning in the jungle wasn't exactly resting ! But more about that later on. We're now back in Quito and it is time to tell you all about our fantastic trip in the Galapagos. You will already have seen the pic :...

Ecuador is a country of contrasts : after vibrant Quito surrounded by volcanoes, the stunning galapagos islands, we went to the north of Ecuador in the Highlands. The scenary changes completely and we're surrounded by luxuriously green mountains. It's a key agricultural region where you see corn fields and roses plantations stretching across the mountain flanks. We headed to the Cotacachi ecological reserve where we found the Cuicocha lake: a stunning dar...