Cuenca is a truely beautiful city. So many amazing old buildings, which I did have piccys of and woulda loved to have shown you but I can´t (I´ll explain that in the Lima section) anyhow we stayed at a very funky cafe/bar/hostel, we got there late and since we didn´t know what else to do we got stonking drunk.. now I don´t want to tell tales out of school but Toby was sick in the sink!! The next morning was a slow and painful start but eventually we got up a...

We awoke in Riobamba..and left at the crack of 11am. At the bus station amid confusion and a line of busses and shouting bus attendants we joined the fray and called out 'alausi' at which point a bus attendant surged forward grabbed our bags and flung them on his coach.. we dived in after them and crossed our fingers. We may not be headed for alausi but wherever we were going, we were going with our luggage. Never before have I had my luggage dictate my destinati...

Riobamba.. the coach journey took about 4hours, I suspected that having quite long legs it'd be a really bad 4 hours but heres the thing.. in a country where the population is as a rule shorter than ours, you get considerably more leg room... we are being done! Now if I am properly honest I don't have a lot to say about riobamba.. we got a taxi to our hostal which was unspectacular. We went for a mouch around town.. some potential shopping (but ya can't coz you'd...

After our Galapagion adventure we were releived to get back to the tepid tempratures of quito... we headed back to what now felt like our hostal, hostal revolution where we had left some of our stuff and while we had toyed with the idea of moving straight on, we were knackered and in need of some laundering. So we had an admin day, got our laundry done (50 cents a kilo..bargin) went to our very own Chinese (3rd time) and had a few jars with the guys at the hostal...

PART 2 - so where was I. Thats right, at the airport.. so to get from the airport to anywhere you have to get the airport bus to the chanel between Baltra and Santa Cruz, then the boat across the chanel and then as it was very late we got a taxi (it was a pick up truck so we sat in the back - coz they never let you do that in the UK - awesome) from the north of SantaCruz to Puerto Ayora in the south to meet the boat.. I got on the boat in calm water in harbour an...