Days 7 to 9 After a few days roughing it in the jungle it was time for a little TLC. We travelled to Banos, another mountain town popular for holiday makers and full of Spas. Most of you will know I do love a spa so wasted no time getting booked in. The treatment included a facial and massage but also 1 hr of steam treatments where you sit in very hot and cold pools and its supposed to do wonders for your skin and circulation. The hot steam part involved sitti...

Days 4 and 5 After 2 nights in the jungle it was time to move on, this time down river. I booked a day of white water rafting on the Napo river. I have rafted before where the name of the game was to stay in the raft. Not so here. Our guide, an English guy turned native, spent the whole trip devising ways to get his mainly all female crew into the river. First trick was to land the raft right on top of the massive boulders in the middle of the river. Easier don...