Hey all.  We had a lovely bus ride from Banos to Tena.  Full on jungle looking scenery and lots of deep canyons to gaze at.  It was super humid when we arrived in Tena and we went to book a river rafting trip right away.  We found a company that was helpful and friendly and spoke English and had openings on a Class IV trip the next day so we went with them. Happy to have accomplished our mission we braved a pizza place and were pleasently...

Alrighty, Richard - you guilted me into another entry! I almost put one up yesterday, but it was beautiful out, and I couldn't be bothered to sit in an internet cafe while it was so grogeous and sunny out! So... the night tour of the volcano. Yeah, the volcano is shrouded in clouds every night, which everyone knows, so we didn't actually see it (although on the way into town we did see the damage done to the road by an eruption last August). The ¨party bus...

Right, well the whole sightseeing business got delayed for a day when we found all the shoe stores... and clothing, and other fun things. We spent most of Thursday wandering from store to store, trying on shoes and tight jeans and making a few purchases. Still got to see a lot of the city, and was fun to have a day where we just kind of relaxed, instead of feeling like we were trying to shove in as much sightseeing as possible (and I did get some really love qu...

Ahhh... the adventures begin again. After we left the internet place last night, we went out for dinner - randomly ordering things off the appetizer menu (4 appetizers plus 2 drinks came to $6.20). We learned that humitas is a really tasty, slightly sweet steamed corn dumpling, and that salchipapas, which we've seen on pretty much every menu but have yet to order, is french fries topped with a hot dog. I think that in the future I will stick to the humitas. H...

Hi all,Well, Vilcabamba was definitely what the doctor ordered. Our first day there was all about relaxing after the marathon bus trip. We ate, we wandered, we ate some more, we got facials, a massage (me), and a pedicure (Erika) - our hostel had great Mexican food, which we fully enjoyed. It actually reminded me a lot of the house in Akumal / lots of bright colours, lovely garden in the courtyard, grass roofs on the palapas - very nice. The next morning we heade...