When we were planning this trip, we decided not to go to Galapagos for the simple reason that it's just to expensive. During our travels in Ecuador we met alot of people who went, and they all had the same conlusion: It's worth every penny. We were more and more convinced, and finally ordered tickets from Guayaquil to Galapagos when we were in Quito. To save some expenses, we just took on daytrips and stayed away from the cruise-boats.. 18. March we arrived at S...

After having such great succes with our thumbs all the way from Otavalo to Baños, we decided to keep on hitching across the country. The next journey was not our longest ride so far, but maybe the most comfortable and enjoyable one. We caught a ride on the trunk of a small pickup, driven by a middle-aged man and his daughter. They were Ecuadorian tourists one a roadtrip to experience the jungle together. Down what is popularly known as "the road with the ...

Hola! After hitching a short ride from Ambato to Baños with a supernice ecuadorian family, we found ourselves a nice hostal for $5 a night midday tuesday. Hostal Rosalita is highly recommended, big nice rooms and friendly staff. Baños is a touristy town in a deep valley very close to the active volcano Tungurahua, who had a small eruption as late as december. It´s a beautiful place with steep mountains all around. See photos! Our first day in Baños was very...

Early morning Saturday the 5 march we got out of Hostal San Blas and got on the Trollebus that took us to a bus station. from there we asked around and got on a transfer bus to another bus station. This turned out to be Quitos northern central station and Saturday being the first day of holiday(carneval) it was absolutely PACKED with people. We estimated a 3 hour plus wait just in the queue. We started asking people it they wanted to shear a Taxi with us, and w...

1. Mars, Eirik´s birthday, we strolled of the bus in Quito about 0600 a.m. Blindly following the lonely planet travel-guide we ended up in an ok hostel within walking distance from the centre. Quito is a big town, with loads of things to see and do. So we decided to split up the sights in "new town" and "old town" and use 1 day to explore each part. In the new town, day 1, we went to "parque Carolina" where there is a vivarium, a bo...