Heyyy, so we arrivd in Quito after a four hour bus journey. Gem and I grabbed the two front seats with extra leg room...big mistake. The bus made loads of stops and people just sat in our extra leg room space, which was not THAT big! Two kids actually fell asleep there, with their legs under our seats, and a woman and her child sat on the arm of the chair and used me as a back rest. Very claustraphobic, we were relieved to arrive in Quito. When we arrived we wen...

Sorry it's been so long everyone, who knew there weren't internet cafes in the jungle?! Gemma here, telling you all about our 4 day jungle excursion... Thursday We left Baños early in the morning to make our way to the big bad jungle!! We had a six hour journey during which we mostly slept and read, although a large part was ruined by a woman in the aisle pressing herself into my side and hitting my legs with her bag every 30 seconds! She got off eventually th...

Alrighty, so we arrived in Baños a few days ago, from Cuenca and before that, Mancora, so I'll do a little summary on them all. Mancora was just a little beach town, known for surfing, and sunning. It was our tour leaders "21st" birthday the night we arrived so we had a big night out, starting with dinner, and then drinks in a couple of bars, aswell as a shop actually that we ended up in. Very strange, there was not much was open, so a guy ended up ha...