Quito is a slimey place and stinks of dirty mustard. Back in Quito last Thursday and an attempt was made to rob us of our cash and passports in an unorthadox kinda way. We left the hotel in dodgy central (marsical sucre) to grab a quick bite to eat. Slimey thief #1, walked beside us on his mobile phone, probably talking tactics to greasy thief #2. Next minute, slimey thief #1, grabbed our attention by pointing to our backs. We stopped and both backs were cov...

The bus driver was engraged with rabies as he pushed the chicken bus to it´s uper limits through the mountain roads to Riobamba. It was an interesting 4hrs of my traveling life with various people, animals, bits of food and other things boarding the bus along the non-stop journey to Riobamba (yep, to catch a bus, you have to catch a MOVING bus). That afternoon in Riobamba we booked at a local hotel with the same plush interior as the last, next to the rail...

34 hours is an extremely long time to travel to a destination - I wonder if astronauts share the same feeling?! From melbourne it took 5 connecting flights; multiple hours of duty free window shopping; a gut full of microwave cuisine and a few raging inflight babies entertaining my sleep patterns before touching down in Quito, Ecuador. Quito is tucked amongst the andes at an altitude of 2850m. A little wierd to breathe at first, steps felt a little heavy (prob...