After Cuenca we had planned to see Loja and Vilcambambe but unfortunately due to a problem with banks we had to cancel the trip to Vilcabamba and just waited for our bus to Huanchaco later that day. After the 16hr bus to Huanchaco we were both in the mood for a relax on a beach. Thankfully the town obliged with a beautiful setting and a really nice beach for us to enjoy. The following day we went for a very short ride on a Reed boat. These boats are quite stran...

Much of the first day in Cuenca was spent wandering around the town getting to know the place and looking around its amazing churches and parks. One such building was the Cathedral de Inmaculada, which has to be one of the largest and most impressive Cathedrals I have ever seen. It was meant to be the largest in all of South America, but the architect got some calculations wrong so they could not add the last remaining parts to the building. The second day was s...

We left Banos to head to Riobamba - a town only a couple of hours away from Banos.. The main reason we wanted to go there, was to do the famous Devils Nose Train Ride - supposedly one of the most spectacular train rides in the Andes. So off we went to Riobamba and spent the day having a wander around the city. The following morning, it was a 5.30 start as we made our way to the station to do our Devils Nose train ride. But when we got there we found out there ...

So from Puerto Lopez to Banos was a bit of a nightmare trip and ended up being our worst day so far. The morning started with becky being ill in the morning, so missed our early start and got to the bus station by 9 and managed to miss the bus by two minutes so we had to wait another hour. In the mean time Becky decided to faint on me twice before managing to get the bus at ten. So our first bus took 4 half hours instead of the supposed 4 hrs, which meant we mis...

From Canoa to Puerto lopez was meant to be quite an easy bus journey but as we are finding out, buses in Equador don´t seem to run to time. It was meant to take 4hrs and two different buses and ended up taking 8hrs and three different buses! But we did get to see a three year old shining a mans shoes at one of the bus stops, quite bizzare! So once we finally arrived we found a hostel, and we managed to find quite a hippy place on the south end of the beach. It ...