After a long night spent awake with my old friend toilet (never ever eat salad), I went to a cafe just around the corner from my hostel for a tasty omelette and a cappuccino con leche. My hostel manager hooked me up with his taxi driver friend Luis who looked like Luigi from super mario brothers to drive me around Quito for 3 hours for only $40. He took me up to the Pululahua volcanic crater (see photo album) and told me all about it's history. During the month...

Made it to Ecuador in one piece! After having to listen to a 75 year old Australian woman called Beverley harp on about nothing for 7 hours on the flight from Santiago to Quito I couldn't have been happier to get the hell out of there. It was surprisingly easy to get a taxi, and a flat rate meant he couldn't pull a shifty on me and drive me around in circles. This didn't stop him, however, from going in excess of 100kmh in the middle of the city, literally runni...

Time to explore Ecuador! I met my tour guide Fabio this morning at breakfast, he's from Peru. He rocks up to the breakfast table with his own 'special' tea - coca tea! It was amazing to see him turn from a seemingly relaxed kinda guy to this wired pinger, I've gotta get me some of this stuff. Unfortunately I was given only English breakfast - hornimans tea. Everybody loves a cuppa horniman in the morning haha. After breakfast we went to this tiny cafe and played...