When Fede at the hostel told us that a 'Lizard Park' was quite close to the hostel, I knew that would be heading there. So that's where we went after breakfast. We couldn't find any iguanas, nor could we find the Hilton hotel where we had to buy a polo shirt it from 'Lonesome George & Co.' We ended up taking a $5 taxi to the hotel, found that the shop is no longer there and grumbled. We did explore that part of town though - a huge shopping centre, Mall del S...

After a week of croissants for breakfast, delightful feast of scrambled eggs/omelette and toast was a welcome change. We started the day by exploring the city downtown the Malecon. The Rio Guayas looked somewhat like chocolate milk, and not the nice drinking variety either. sleep with the modern art museum right next to Las Peñas. The museum had an incredible mix of art media forms, galleries from different artists and some antique/ancient rather stuff too. Ne...

All good things have to come to an end unfortunately and our 'holiday' from backpacking South America is one of those things. We figured that we could live by a bus, but no one thought to tell us that they stop running at 8am, so when we went to leave at 9am our only option left was a taxi ($18 instead of $2). Grumble. But we took the taxi to the channel, and took the ferry across the channel, and took the shuttle up to the airport, and we reluctantly left the i...

The only highlight of today was the hour long border crossing in the heat. Seriously, just gimme the two stamps and let me go!We made it into Guayaquil at 6.30pm, found a bus a direct bus leaving to Banos at midnight, and then hung around the food court at the Bus Terminal for hours. Pizza Hut and KFC were apparently our only options for dinner.