Today yet another adventure is about to start. I am leaving Ecuador (with pain in the heart) and have a flight booked to Sao Paolo later this afternoon. Raul and I have an amazing breakfast in a Spanish establishment before giving Guayaquil the benefit of the doubt. After an hour of strolling on the Malecon, we both decide this city has none of the character of the other Ecuatorian cities so we decide to go to our room, pick up our luggage, and head to the bus te...

Today I leave for Galapagos, unbelievable! I get up around 7h30 and take time for a nice breakfast - one of the things I do like about this hostel - together with Mariano. Around 10h00 we slowly make move to pack our bags as check-out time is 11h00, even if I feel they won't be too strict about us being a bit late. I text Yvonne to have a 4th goodbye lunch and the 3 of us agree on meeting at Tostaky at 12h30. We bump into a Puerto Rican entrepreneur who joins us...

We are woken up around midnight for our navigation shift. The sea is extremely calm and - Karen and me being a team - we decide to each take two turns of half an hour each steering the boat, Karen starting off first. At two o'clock it is time to wake up Veronica and Jose for their shift and - happy for not having encountered any passing boats nor storms during our shift- we quickly return to our double sofabed for some more sleep. Around 6h30 we are all awake a...

A lazy day to stroll around Salta as we have not taken the time yet to do so decently. In the evening, we walk about 15 blocks to get to the other end of town and go up the San Bernardo hill by Tereferico (too late to walk up by now as it is 18h20 already by the time we make it to the bottom of the hill);The cable car to San Bernardo Hill seems an excellent way to see Salta from above. It proves to be a ten minute ride, taking us from the city centre up to a g...

I wake up and I feel human again! What a change to yesterday evening! We take a quiet breakfast at the rooftop bar of our friend Luis and - sipping our hot coffee - we enjoy the most amazing view over the Cerro de los siete colores. As I did not get any view over the village yesterday, we stroll around and climb up to the best viewpoint after breakfast .The village lies against the exceptional Cerro de los Siete Colores, which has sedimentary rocks of different c...