The final destination of the ´organised´part of the trip and where we had to say goodbye to all the friends we have made over the last few months which was evry sad, especially as we may not see some of the again (spread all over the world). Our last supper didn´t quite work out as the various taxi drivers couldn´t find the restaurant we had all agreed to meet in, and as a result we all got split up so we had dinner in a Jazz cafe with Tracey and Kathy. It ac...

Awesome. We would love to go back there and see more - the only downside was that it was hideously hot and sweaty and there were lots of nasty biting bugs, but hey, that´s what you get in the Amazon isn´t it?. We visited an animal sanctuary where we saw many monkeys of varying kinds along with some other animals that had been rescued from smugglers (Capibara, various parrots, a caimen, anaconda etc etc). Unfortunately the only animals we saw in the ´wild´as...

Ecuador is like a breath of fresh air as we are now seeing the colour green for the first time in ages - it happened almost instantly when we crossed the border. We spent a few nights in Rio Verde which was gorgeous. The place where we camped was in a stunning location with hammocks overlooking a river, canyon and lush Amazon mountains with chocolate cake available 24 hours a day. Bliss. We took the opportunity to white-water raft again as we were assured they we...

Hello from Ecuador! We have spent the last 8-9 days travelling up through Peru along the coast into Ecuador which is green, lush and usually raining! Just like home except the temperature is about 25 degrees. There is not a huge amount to report, we had 4-5 big drive days to get up here broken up by a stay at Punta Sol on the beach which was really nice and chilled out, we camped on the beach and spent most of the time reading a book in a hammock. Yesterday...