Cali Woke up around 10 today and immediately set about finding the cheapest places to stay in Cali. Colombia turns out to be really expensive compared with everywhere else we have been in South America so far, most dorm bed are over $10 and we simply couldn't afford to spend that kind of money, eventually after most of the morning was gone we managed to negotiate a deal with our current hostel, they offered us a 20% discount as we are staying for 3 weeks (they...

Crossing the border We got up a little later than planned but were ready quickly and after a short sojourn to the panaderia around the corner where we bought some breakfast we were ready to be off. We grabbed a taxi to the border for $3.50 and were surprised when it took over 20 minutes to get there even though its supposedly only 5km away. When we arrived it was all hustle and bustle with people and taxis all over the place and little stalls selling the usual...

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...