Well our blog about the Galapagos might have sounded rather romantic but there was nothing romantic about the 2 weeks that followed after that when we embarked on the adventure that is volunteering with wild animals in Ecuador and crazy Ecuadorian people! We can laugh about it now but running for our shallow little lives up an embankment because "lions can`t climb" was our reality! but more about that later... The place had so many more animals than ...

Well this is probably the hardest blog I´ve written as I just don´t think words will do the place justice but here goes... From the minute we arrived the Galapagos is different and amazing, landing on an uninhabited islands in to tropical weather and with giant grasshoppers covering all the welcome signs! Even the short 10 min bus ride to get over to the main island you see pelicans, friget birds and bright red giant crabs just hanging about all over the place...

Well first of all I have to get the rant over about Quito and there nasty dirty theiving gypos. We hadn`t been outside of the bus terminal on our way to Banos for more than 5 mins before the little b%&tards hit. Fair enough we were dumb gringos not chaining ourselves to our bags but we did think that it being only a meter above our heads would have surficed - obviously not! they certainly are professional at it thats for sure. I spent the remaining 3 hours do...

Well it seems like a long time since I`ve updated this site, been doing loads after a couple of quieter weeks. We didn`t stay long in Peru, didn`t find ourselves warming to the place much and have realised that we`ve overspent on the budget so needed to go and find something cheap to do for a week or so. We did spend our anniversary in Cusco and met up with half of the guys from our previous tour group, so that was a good night out, although it ended up with a g...