Hi All, The real travelling has now begun… 8 hours sitting in an uncomfortable bus driving on a bad road with loud Ecuadorian music! And we found out Lonely Planet was right when they said not to sit at the back of the bus as you spend more time airborne than you're actually sitting. But the amazing views of the landscape and the I-pod on 10 do make up for it. Before this bus journey it still felt like a normal vacation, but now we are starting to realize that...

Hi All, What a start! After a business class flight to Quito (thanks for the upgrade Iberia) we arrived in our hostel in the afternoon where the girl from the reception told us to take no valuables in the street. 'Everybody gets robbed here at any time, in any place so just take as little as possible.' OK that is a warm welcome. Anyways, so far, so good, and we only have one more night to spend in Quito. We visited the old colonial city which has many churches, ...