Hi Everyone, Welcome to another addition of our blog. It is currently 5am in the morning, I cannot sleep...due to the mosquitos. Lindsey is sleeping, but I don't know how!! We have now finished volunteering with GVI in Otavalo (a week ago). We had an amazing experience, which we will never forget. A big 'thank you' to all the fantastic people that we met. On Wednesday night we had our leaving meal. All twenty volunteers came out for pizza at a restaurant ca...

Hi All We have been in Otavalo for a month now. We had a one day week this week due to a bank holiday and our builder could only do one day. Thursday we did stove building but had to wait two hours for our builder to show up.... so similar to the UK! I got sunburnt as it was so very hot - about 25C. Building was hard in the heat once we finally got round to doing some! Friday we just chilled, and prepared for the next leg of our trip - Peru and Chile. In the...

Hi Guys,Here in Ecuador it is National holiday for three days so we have more time off from stove building. We decided to go to the beach for three days with the other volunteers - to Atacames. It was a 6 hour journey in our family's bus, driven by our host 'dad', Juime. Some of the guys left the day before and had to go by bus, which was a 10 hour journey! Atacames is the party capital of Ecuador, with lots of bars on the beach. We booked ourselves into the hos...

Hi Everyone. We have been very busy during the week building in Otavalo so we went to Mindo last weekend for some fun. Mindo is in the Cloud Forests and is known for it's adventure activities, tubing, zip lining and partying. We went there with six other volunteers and the first day we went tubing. We all thought it would be a single tyre floating along a lazy river... Not quite. It was eight tyres tied together on a fast flowing river which was three to four f...

Hi Guys, We have now settled into our new surroundings in Ecuador/Otavalo. We are now living with our host family who are lovely. (The same family that Zoe and Greg stayed with when they were here - what a coincidence.) Lindsey and I have now started our construction project. First day It rained and our builder had to go to a community meeting for two days. Instead we had to go into one of the schools and help the other volunteer teachers. It was good to s...