Day 59 - 61 Quito After an easy afternoon flight from the Galapagos via Guayaquil to Quito we arrived at our hostel which ended up being a great little find. It was called Jumbo Lodging and was owned and run by a lovely family in a nice little place within the old town. After meeting the father who showed us to our enormous room and then gave us a run down of a few places to go, we jumped outside to make the most of the last few hours of light. We checked out s...

Galapagos Islands After catching a bus over the border into Ecuador from Peru, with every possible appendage crossed for good luck, we arrived into Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, in the hope of finding a last minute, and of course dirt cheap, trip to the Galapagos Islands. We succeeded in 1.5 of the 2. Our tour was booked within 1 hour of arriving to our hostel. The 5 day tour we booked didn't start for two days so rather than hang around the ugly and not s...