Whilst sitting in a resturant on our first night we were waiting or our food when something caught my eye. I spotted someone I thought I knew... Katie thought that it could be someone who just looked the same but I wasn´t so sure. We went for a drink later and I saw the same person sitting in Mancora surf club bar. I had to go in and find out. I looked at him sitting down and he looked back at me, I was almost sure as he gave me a tentative Hola. I asked the ba...

We decided to leave Baños soon after our walk and head towards Riobamba to take one of the surviving train routes left in Ecuador. We arrived in Riobamba to find that the train was not running due to line problems so it was back on a bus to Machala (the self proclaimed Banana Capital of the World). There really was nothing there to write about apart from a glut of banana producers and some houses that banana wealth has built. After a comfortable but surprisingl...