The morning after the night before. Both Katie and I were moving relatively slowly as we had to pack up and leave Cusco Pardo to move back to Pariawanna for our last day in Cusco. Unfortunately as our room wasn't available till 1 we went out too keep ourselves amused. In our tired and hungover states we decided to pamper ourselves was necessary. Cusco is full of women offering beauty treatments, to which we finally gave in as Katie got a pedicure and I got a ma...

We arrived back to Quito on the Friday and headed back to our hotel Fuente Piedre 2. It was good to be back somewhere safe whilst staying in Quito. This hotel was really nice and cost with potentially the best showers to date. The front desk spoke little English but were very helpful and allowed us to spend most of the following day in the foyer before we made our move on to Peru. On the Saturday night the remaining tour group went out for dinner. We went to a ...

So the next part of our long journey to Peru began. We had booked tickets the day before from the Cruz del Sur website for $100 dollars. We had paid $15 dollars more for V.I.P seats and Ohhh my were they worth it. Large leather seats with personal televisions, foot rests and reclining backs meant that the 28hour journey was as bearable as probably possible. We boarded at 2pm and reached the border 4 hours later. We unfortunately arrived straight after another ...

By the time our tour to the Galapagos came to start the following week, we were more then ready to kiss goodbye to Quito and head back to the beaches and wildlife. Our tour was organised by G Adventures and was called Galapagos on a Shoestring. We spent a week island hoping between San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Isabella and then back to Santa Cruz. It was a jam packed week full of activities, boat trips and early mornings. However it was such a relief to have ever...

So long Ecuador. Our stay here has been eventful to say the least. This has been our longest time spent in one country so far, spending one week in Quito and then another on the Galápagos Islands. Whilst in Quito, we were a lot more active than we had been up until this point. Long gone were the days of being surrounded by Costa Rican beaches and English speakers. Instead we found ourselves trying to navigate a busy city with our very broken Spanish. For the...