Day 11: Spent all day sunbathing and eating on the beach! At 9pm we checked out and took motorised tuktuks to the bus station, where we took a 10hour night bus to Huanchaco.

Day 10: before breakfast we went to find out about the water activities available. Nicole, Ellen, Darinka and I chose to go swimming with sea turtles. After a few hours sun bathing we went to the activities office where our guide, David, picked us up and took us to a small fishing village called Nuro. We waited on the pier for a bit watching the pelecans fight over the fisherman's scraps and some birds diving into the sea for fish. We then took a boat ride from ...

Day 9: we had to get up super early for our 6:20 bus. It took 5 hours to get to our change over where we swapped from the Ecuador to a Peruvian bus. At the bus stop it was very busy so we all went inside, put our bags together and took it in turn to go to the bathroom. Tobias had left his stuff outside the circle and during a change over of people, one man distracted us all and other man took Tobias' day-pack. After we realised it was too late and he'd gone! We l...

Day 8: This morning Lara, Denis and I went for a run in the park. They have a 465m lap track in the park and free aerobics class! We did 5laps and that was enough with the altitude. The whole group then went for breakfast at a yogurt shop then most of us took the city bus tour around Cuenca. There was a free tour around the Panama hat museum. The man that started Panama hats was from Cuenca but when Theodore Rosevelt visited Central America, he bought the straw ...

Day 7: Today we hired a private bus to take us 7 hours from Banos to Cuenca.we stopped in Chunchi for lunch and arrived at our hotel at 6pm. After showers we went for dinner in the main square next to the church.