We were fully aware that we wouldn`t be able to get a direct bus from Baños to Cuenca, so we weren`t surprised when we were informed that we needed to change in Riobamba. What surprised us was how busy the bus was going to be. Due to the amount of people there were no seats for us in the normal part of the bus, so the driver let us sit next to him. Mez scored and got the comfy seat that the ticket man normally sits in. Emma and I however sat on a small ledge tha...

So in Guayaquil we stayed in this really nice hostel, "dreamkapture," with an amazing free breakfast everyday that you stay, big clean rooms and they organised our Galapagos tour for which we will be forever greatful for. However . . . I believed that travelers had a code and this code was broken in this hostel. Not remotely the hostels fault but that of the other guests. Went out for dinner when we returned from Galapagos and I received way too much food, so to...

Galapagos!!! So we arrived off our plane, with another $100 bill to pay just for arriving on the islands. The cost of Galapagos was more than I had budgeted for and with the money worries I hoped that it was going to be everything that I thought it would be. Baltra island, which is basically just an airport, is where we met our guide and where we should have met the rest of the people on our boat. This turned out not to be the case since we three were the only ...

So we caught a bus on Sunday to Quito and arrived at the bus station with no idea of where we should be going. I have gotten rather good at haggling for taxis when I know how much more or less it should be. Sometimes there are nice taxi drivers who charge us more or less what a local would pay and then there are the ones who charge us a bomb. We got the bomb. We decided on the old town since both the lonely planet and the footpath book that we have said that it ...

So I finished my last blog with my bank cards not working and my $20 and 5 euros being stolen from my bag. Not a great final memory of Peru, and hopefully it won`t be the one that sticks in my mind when I think of the country. Made it over the border with no other dramas, and the first thing I try is to get money out of the card. This works fine, and I was thinking that my worries were over. This turned out not to be the case. $4 haggled taxi to Dreamkapture ho...