Were glad to leave Quito and head to a smaller town, especially after we were robbed and think just about everyone has been robbed or conned in some way. They have many ingenious ways of doing so, some of them include 1. 2 middle age women with handbags push against you on busy bus, train etc, but what do we gringos think, it wont be a middle age women who slashes my pocket/bag and steals my belongings it will be a dodgy looking youth, very wrong indeed! 2. yo...

We have had a busy few days since we last emailed. just before we left Quito for the jungle max was robbed, well actually pickpocketed. we were on a busy bus and his trousers were slashed with a knife and his wallet was stolen, very annoying but at least we only lost 70 dollars and a bank card, have heard lots of other stories since about quito so think we were actually lucky. But on a happier note we went into the jungle for a few days. It was a long journe...

Arrived safely in Ecuador after lengthy delays in Madrid and London due to plane crash in Madrid. Our anxiety was not helped when they started playing the theme tune to the Titanic over the tanoy as the flight prepared to take off. After a long flight we landed to rapturous applause and 8 degrees celsius. Felt pretty crap for the first day because of the altitude but still managed to do a bit of sightseeing around the city. Visited the "centre of the ear...