Hola everyone! I'm still in Quito but I'm off to the jungle tomorrow to start my volunteer work. I'll be spending two weeks with a community deep in the jungle near the border with Peru, where they have never had any tourists before. I have to get the bus to Puyo and then get a little plane deep in the jungle should be fun! After that I'll be in the Cloud Forest for 12 days with another community that are nearly ready to receive tourists and ha...

Hola! I got up early today because I wanted to catch the Animal Market, which starts at 5am. Over breakfast I met a bloke from Switzerland called Castan? I think. I'd actually seen in Quito a few days ago in one of the museums but didn't talk to him. He seemed to know exactly what was going on so we arranged to spend the day together visiting the markets. The Animal Market had pretty much finished by the time we got there but there were still some cows ...

Hola! I went back to the Old Town today to visit some of the many churches and museums fun fun! First stop from the Trole bus was the Plaza Santo Domingo where I started at the Iglesia Santo Domingo. Not sure if I was meant to take photo's so I left pretty quickly when the security guard started following me around and giving me evils. I was just standing in the Square taking pictures when I saw a massive Mary looking down from a little hill so I jumpe...

Hola everyone, Thought I'd better update you on what I've been up to.Thursday I visited some of the sites in the New Town starting with the Museo de la Amazonas. I thought I'd better do some research if I'm going to spend a month in the jungle! Unfortunately I couldn't understand much as it was all in Spanish (how dare they) but I got the general gist when I got to the exhibit with spears, heads on sticks and scary looking shamens, should...

Hola everyone!! I finally made it to Ecuador! My flight from London was delayed becuase the cabin crew for my Iberia flight were over an hour late, consequently I missed my connection in Madrid and had to stay overnight. I had to wait for four and a half hours at the airport for them to track down my bag and then finally the airline arranged a hotel and food etc. My new friend (from Northern Ireland, I swear they follow me around!) shared the entire ordeal with ...