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...

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...

Chan Chan After finally falling asleep somewhere around 2.30am we were awakened at 8 by the bus hostess saying we would be arriving at Trujillo shortly. Rubbing the sleep out of our eyes we looked out of the window to see a desert landscape and a rather ramshackle looking town around us in the morning sunshine. Once we got off the bus and sorted our bags out we quickly ascertained that we couldn't travel on to Guayaquil that night with Cruz Del Sur as they onl...