Quito June 5 - 8 We left Guayaquil on a local bus (one of about 90 different bus companies that serve the city), and set off for an eight and a half hour journey. Being a local bus they stopped regularly to pick up passengers on the road side which added time to the journey. It seemed like we were travelling forever even though we had already done bus journeys much longer than this one. The last couple of hours were pretty horrendous as we had to drive up th...

Guayaquil June 3 - 5 We left Mancora around lunchtime on the Friday and boarded the cheapo local bus to Guayaquil, Ecuador. There were a few tourists on board, and being local the bus stopped numerous times. The boarding crossings were a bit more official than others we have encountered in SA so far and we also had to stop at Police check points for them to search the bus. I was just happy that my bag wasn't taken off and emptied as that would just be a pain...

Mancora May 31 - June 3 We arrived in Mancora around 9.30am and were immediately surround by tuk tuks (it almost felt like we were in Asia). It felt so nice so be somewhere hot finally, we just wanted to find somewhere to stay, have a shower and get into our summer clothes. So in the tuk tuk we jumped and headed for a couple of places we had heard of, only to find out that it wasn't so nice in person, or the pool was closed, or it was full of Israelis. In ca...

Lima May 30 So we arrived in Lima thinking we would stay for one night, have a look around and then take a bus to Mancora for the beaches on Tuesday. However, upon enquiring we found out that all the nicer seats had been taken for the Tuesday and we didn't like the thought of having semi-cama seats for 18 hours when there were nicer seats downstairs. So we decided to bite the bullet and booked ourselves onto the bus for the same day. So, a 21 hour overnight ...

May 26 - 29 We arrived in Cusco around 2am on Thursday morning all feeling pretty shattered after a long and tiring few days, so jumped into a cab and headed for the centre of town. On arrival people were still partying and we are walking around with our backpacks, we bumped into a guy who took Cusco us to his hostel where there just so happened to be a four-bedded room which cost us less than four quid each. It wasn't the nicest of places and the beds were li...