Good nights sleep and already feeling better (hurrah!). Took a Tuk Tuk ride (the tricycle ones) to the harbour, quite funny, ended up racing each other and a couple of of them had music blaring out, so with the rest of the rush hour traffic, was a bit like whacky races!! Not sure I've mentioned it, but they have alot of VW Beatles here, the old style, not the new plastic version, interesting car of choice!! Stopped to get toys, pencils and food for our home stay...

Short flight to Juliaca airport this morning and another random greeting at the luggage belt. This time it was a traditional Peruvian band (including the mandatory pan pipes, thought about requesting Careless Whisper but not enough time). On top of the belt was lots of dolls in traditional dress from different areas. Also seemed to be depicting some sort of church ceremony, may have been a funeral, not sure, good to have something nice to look at whilst waiti...

Good last night in Quito, the group went for a meal in the hotel, have swapped emails and hoping to catch up with some of the guys who live in the UK or when the rest either visit the UK, or when I visit the US or Canada. Only downside of the meal was in Ecuador they cannot serve drink on a Sunday, so Jane, Grant, Neil and I went to the boys room to order beer on room service and toast the trip! Had some interesting conversations about road rage and getting arre...

Last full day on the boat :( Started the day with a boat ride around the bay. Once again we had been told that we'd probably see a few things here and there. I think the easiest way to do it is list them all, we did see a few things, a few thousand things! (You think I exaggerate, but if you counted all of the fish in the shoals we saw there'd be about that!!!) Anyway, I digress, here we go - Sally L crabs, Blue Footed Boobies (complete with blue feet photo o...

Early start (one day I may get a trip with late starts!!), for our first visit to one of the Islands, Santa Floreana. We were greeted off the boats with sea lions play fighting in the waves and a mating pair of blue footed boobies, brilliant name, brilliant feet (oh, and they weren't actually mating, it wasn't Booby porn). From the beach we ventured to a lagoon to see pink flamingoes and to hear the history of the island from Diego, our boat guide. As the book ...