Today was our first of 2 visits to the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle. Here we travelled to Pimpilata a very small town and from there in open topped truck travelled into the jungle to our homestay on the Napo river, one of the Amazons 2 main tributary´s and stayed with a local Quichan family, the husband of the household was also a Sharmen. - Delfin. Now when I say a Sharmen, please don´t think I´m talking about Mr C here and...

This is the first stop on my organised tour around Ecuador. a short bus ride away, 4 hours and a 20 minute rid in the back of a truck and we arrived at our destination.Nestled in surrounding mountains, the Andes and on the outer rim of the Amazon basin, this small village surrounded by cloud forrest was our first nights accomodation. A 6 birth cabin with real log fires, a sunken bath and 4 thermal pools of different temperatures right outside our front door and 1...

Arrive tomorrow for language school!

Here we are in Baños which in Spanish means baths, at the base of the Tungurahua Volcano (little hell in Quichua!), Baños is famous for its thermal pools. Baños also has a brilliiant night life and is full of young travellers, although it has to be said that not in the 2 days that I was there as there was a major landslide on the road between Quito and Baños which meant that the town was empty.  However we had a bri...