Banos Not really managing to do more than doze on the exceptionally bouncy, noisy, hot bus we arrived at Banos at 4 in the morning quite exhausted from our 3 nights on buses without proper sleep. Luckily waiting by the bus station was a man who had a reasonably priced hostel who we followed through the deserted streets in the gentle rain that had started to fall. We reached the hostel and collapsed into our bed, not stirring again until nearly 11am when we got...

Buses Nothing to say about today as we spent all of it on buses. The bus from Trujillo left at about 1:30 and we quickly fell asleep. When we woke up about 8 we were provided with breakfast of crackers and jam, then we watched a film and looked at the beautiful scenery which started as a coastal landscape which gradually turned into endless banana plantations with large green mountains in the background and eventually to huge flooded valleys of extremely murky...