After being evicted from the jungle (and disappointingly not being greeted by Ant & Dec), we were looking forward to having a hot shower and getting our clothes cleaned. First though we had to endure a 6 hour bus journey before we could succumb to these pleasures. The coach journey was surprisingly painless as all along the way we encountered breathtaking mountain scenery and countless waterfalls. Banos itself seemed quite a quaint and idyllic town located i...

One part of our tour which really appealed to me was a 3 night stay in the Amazon. That truly sounded like a once in a lifetime opportunity and something I really don't think we could do on our own. Of course that was before we started travelling and before I realised how much of an issue I had with cockroaches, frogs and other similar horrible creatures! I really didn't know how I was going to cope in an actual jungle. We took a bus to the nearest city called ...

So the beginning of the end...the last leg of our trip...it's scary how fast it has gone so far. Our entry point into Latin America, the fourth and final continent that we would be visting, was Quito - the second highest capital city in the world. Sara regretably looked up Ecuador on the FCO website and it isn't a pretty read, but this blog is evidence that we have managed to survive so far! As you already probably know, we are doing an organised tour around Sou...

From San Francisco we flew to Mexico where we had arranged to stay with some friends of Bryan's friend. I had been warned of the dangers of travelling to Mexico and I was putting my trust in complete strangers which made me nervous. My nerves were not calmed when we arrived at the airport and no one was there to pick us up. However, it was just a simple misunderstanding as Malena (Mali) had arrived to pick us up but was at the wrong terminal. She had even written...

Ok here's San Fran part 2 and we're back to me (Sara) writing the next couple of blogs so hopefully we can catch up a bit! The second half of our week in San Francisco was seriously action packed. About midweek we took a cable car (like a tram but with the cables inside the road) up some impossibly steep hills (quite scary because the cable cars are really old and have manual brakes) to a street nickname crooked street. It's real name is Lombard Street and it's....