We woke up early to get to the tour office where we booked our Cotopaxi climb. We needed to try on all our equipment and pay for the rest of the climb. All done. Stevie and I getting worried about Altitude sickness and how unfit we are mentioned every headache or unusual feeling throughout the day.... Maybe just nerves. Anyway we set off to buy the additional items we needed. The tour operator also recommended that we take the teleferico (cable car) up the Pichin...

On the hostel walls where we are staying it has every site or attraction you can visit in Ecuador. Looking at the walls we get excited and want to visit everywhere. Although we know time and money won't allow. We decide on several options before we head out for the day into Old Town. We start off looking around Parque el Ejido and see the arco de el Ejido before heading to Basilica, the is the highest church in Ecuador at 2885m. It is an old gothic church with st...

We woke up early to say goodbye to Laura before she left for school...we are going to miss these guys! Then Stevie had this crazy thought of making pancakes for breakfast for the rest of the family....the first two were questionable and put the whole of the english food in doubt to columbians, but then very luckily she managed to do pretty well with the rest. The rest of the morning was spent packing, Mark feeling the effects of the jalapenos and hanging with A...