We got back to Quito in the afternoon and had enough time to organise a trip for the following day to Mindo cloud forest. We then met Moriah, Nick, Val and Robert from our Galapagos trip for dinner. We had a nice dinner followed as always by a drink or two! The following morning we got up for our trip to Mindo. It started with a visit to a butterfly house which was nice! We got to see lots of butterflies and some hummingbirds. From here we headed up to one of the...

I arrived into Quito (the capital of Ecuador) on Sunday afternoon. I reached the hostel I was staying at and chilled watching the TV in the common room for a while. Then along with four others I went in search of a curry, however Ecuador being a good Catholic country closes up most of it's restaurants on a Sunday evening. We did eventually find a curry but were unable to obtain a beer or even a glass of wine. Unable to believe that you really couldn't buy a drink...