Travelling to Tulcan We had breakfast and immediately went out to collect the DVD drive. We arrived at about 10:20 to find the store closed and with no lights on. Eventually at about 11, and only a whole hour late the owner turned up. It turns out that he was unable to fix the drive, but this being the case he didn't charge us for the time he spent working on it. We then went to check out of the hostel and caught a bus to the northern bus terminal. We were on ...

Mitad Del Mundo We had thought today to look round the modern part of Quito but realised that we had seen most of it already through our wanderings and so decided to visit the Equator today instead. After breakfast and finding out the necessary info from the hostel staff we made our way towards Avenue America with a brief stop on the way at a small electric shop to see if we could get Andy's DVD player fixed as we'd found out the night before that the plug in ...

Old Quito After breakfast of toast, jam and coffee we left the hostel and walked the short distance to the trolley bus. We took a short ride into the centre of old Quito getting off at Plaza Santo Domingo. This plaza is dominated by one of the many churches which are dotted all over the colonial centre of the town, we then made a short detour to look a 'La Ronda' the oldest street in Quito. It's quite narrow and is bordered on both sides by old whitewashed bui...

Onwards to Quito We got up this morning and after packing and checking out, went to the internet cafe to use skype. We needed to ring Spirit Airlines as they had sent us and email telling us to call them as some (4) of our flights had changed. When we eventually got through to them we were told that they had all been cancelled and that there were no other flights to San Juan (Puerto Rico) on those dates! What really annoyed us was that they didnt even offer an...

Hiking and Salsa We started the day with some shopping, after picking up a couple of bits at the supermarket we had a walk across the street to the Mercado Central where we managed to find some breakfast of cheese empanadas (this time deep fried, with sugar and tasting somewhat like a cheese filled donut) and a strawberry milkshake, this cost us a grand total of 3 dollars. We dropped the rest of our shopping off at the hostel and then set off. We walked out of...