Returning early to Quito from the Jungle, greeted only by the multidude of drug dealers that linger around the hostel, wasn´t the best start to the end of my stay in Ecuador. Finding out there was no space in the hostel we stayed at before, we moved down two door to the hostel populated entirely by Spanish hippies. In fact, the colourful rooms and large portions of breakfast were very pleasant. I had planned to return to Quito and be proactive and sort out v...

Deciding to be slightly adventurous after a unproductive couple of days in Quito, I decided to ignore the many tours offered for the rainforest and instead stay in a remote cabin in the jungle owned by a man by the name of Don Silverio after finding out about him from another traveler. After persuading some poor unsuspecting fools to put their trust in my vague plan, we set off to Coca to try to get a river boat to Limoncocha. It turned out that we would have to ...

Quito has been a lot of fun if not the most culturally enriching period in my travels. I have been watching lots trashy gameshows in the hostel such as the American version of The Price is Right, which I would recommend if you enjoy watching overexcited Americans jumping around a brightly coloured studio. Shame as Quito is renowned for having beautiful colonial buildings and I have yet to venture more than ten blocks from the hostel. One excursion that I did mak...