Hola amigos! We have spent the past 2 nights in a pretty grotty hostel in Cuenca. This is not, however, a reflection on the city, which is beautiful. Joe has dutifully been dragged around the various plazas parks and cathedrals of the town, but before you call relate, it should be noted that she also got to do plenty of sitting. The town is another that has been named a UNESCO world heritage site and is full of beautiful colonial buildings and plazas. There...

We have done a lot of travelling in the past couple of days - first from Lago Agrio to Riobamba, then Riobamba to Cuenca - a total of about 12 hours on buses. The plan was to get to Riobamba in order to get the train to Alausi and then on to Cuenca. The train goes down from Riobamba, through the ´valley of the volcanoes´to the ´Devil´s Nose´where it zigzags up and down the side of a cliff. That´s the theory anyway. We got to Riobamba to discover that th...

Well, we´re not sure a blog is needed as the photos probably explain it all but here goes... We left Lago Agrio on Monday night and had the night-bus from hell - blaring music, lights on and off all night, bumpy roads and no sleep. But we made it to Tena in one piece and found a nice hostal and did some sleeping. Today we have been white-water rafting on the rio Jatunyacu - a tributary of the Amazon. We rafted down 25km of both flat and white water, with lot...

Hola for some very smelly Jungle explorers! We have spent the last 4 days in the Tropical Rainforest in the far East of Ecuador. To get there involved an overnight bus from Quito to Lago Agrio, another bus to the entrance to Cuyabeno and then 2 hours on a motor canoe to the actual lodge. And we were subjected to torrential rain throughout, resulting in two very soggy explorers. Rain aside, we have had a fantastic time in the rainforest. We have seen all sort...

Greetings from Quito! We are currently perched 2850m above sea level up in the Andes enjoying civilisation. As much as we loved Cuba, and had even got used to it's eccentricities, we are both relieved to be back in the land of shops, decent food, a single currency and temperatures below melting point. Not much to say about Quito - it's a big city with all the things you would expect to find in a big city, although it is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes wh...