We arrive in the uber cool beach town of Montañita to begin our mini honeymoon. The streets are filled with Argentinean hippies doing street entertainment or selling home made things. None of them wear shoes and all greeting one another with the same stupid 'cool' handshake thing. We booked into a hostel right on the beach with our own balcony and private hammock to relax. We spend the 5 days lying on the beach, being stupidly in love, drinking very cheap trop...

Visiting The Galapagos Islands is a once in a lifetime trip. We booked our visit through G Adventures. A company who owns their own boats. We begun our tour in the Hilton hotel in Quito. Very nice for two backpackers. That evening we collected our wedding rings so we celebrated with some fizz in the hotel bar. The next morning was an early start. Our flight was at 7am from Quito airport which is about an hour from the city centre. The tour company had a mini b...

We've booked a tour for this part of the trip which we regretted. It's a country Tomas has already travelled but the tour was booked some time ago and couldn't be cancelled plus it includes a stay with an Amazonas family which would be pretty impossible to arrange ourself. When we arrived at the Hotel Quito, in Quito we were too late to attend the tour welcome meeting - thank godness! But we have instructions to meet our tour leader, Henry, early the following m...