We were woken from our sleep at 4am and instructed to get off the bus. We'd reached the Ecuadorian border and we needed our exit stamp. There was only one guy working in the office and he had a really annoying habit of actually taking the paperwork from the locals who were pushing to the front of the queue. Eventually, we got our stamp and started the long walk across no mans land - the bus waits only for a little while before moving on to the next border post. O...

We were still in lazy mode and by the time we made it down to breakfast, Andy and Carlee were just coming back from a 2 hour tramp. We checked out our rooms at midday but left our bags in the reception office because our bus from Loja to Piura, in Peru, was not until 11pm. The afternoon was sunny so we spent it by the pool doing more blogging and sorting out pictures - we were doing so much and taking so many photos in Galápagos that there was so much more...

After breakfast we walked down the road to the village, mainly to buy our bus tickets to Peru but also to have a little bit of exercise. We wandered around the centre of the village and it's main plaza. There wasn't so much to be seen, a lot of internet cafes and a church which was relatively modern looking. There were also quite of lot of cafe/restaurants that seemed to just be catering for a coffee crowd. It was difficult to decide if they were tourists or ex...

We were under no illusion that we might do anything energetic during our stay at Hosteria Izhcayluma, it had already been decided that we would just chill out and enjoy the place for a few days. A breakfast buffet was available in the restaurant with heaps of fresh cut fruit, a homemade muesli full of seeds and coconut shards, some very tasty bread who's recipe must have came from the German owner and gallons of coffee. We took a wander round the large ground...