Colonial Hotel Sucre

... have a 5 year plan to travel to at leat 100 countries - we might be tempted!! They´ve told us many stories about Nepal and India which is making that part of the world sound very appealing!<br><br>They have also tempted us into to going to the Galapagos Islands so we´re now researching the best deals we can find - can´t wait!!<br><br>Next stop is La Paz before we fly down into the Amazon for some nights spotting Caymen and Aligators!! Fun keeps on coming!

Day 3<br>At breakfast Nancy brought up a trip to La Mitad del Mundo (the middle of the world, a.k.a. the equator). However, thanks to our lack of Spanish skills, Tamra and I did not know whether she was going to take us there or if we would be responsible for the two hour trip on our own. We ended up taking a local bus with Elsa and Nancy to one of the main bus stations that would help us get to La Mitad Del Mundo.<br>On the ...

... still hadn't turned up, we went to Shannon's window and talked to her through that. We were about to find a way in (they had locked all the doors!!) when Nazi doc came back and got really angry at us for moving! We seriously waited around 2-3 hours that day without any help, and so we decided to find our own way in and luckily came across a nice doctor who helped us. After all of that, Shannon was released the next day, diagnosed with a normal flu.<br>After Arequipa we booked a local bus to ...

... 8211; &#8216;Arriba, Abajo, Al Centro, Pa Dentro!&#8217; and advised Ecuadorians only ever fill their glasses about a third of the way with beer&#8230;but they top up enough to make sure they drink pint after pint throughout the night! They made sure there was lots of salsa playing and they taught me some steps&#8230;also teaching me a few rude words too. We have come to realise the men and women in Ecuador a cheeky and dirty to the extreme! As David said &#8216;We like the sex&#8217;. Soon ...

... us being sick. It is a lovely country but we were all glad to be in the lush green hills of Ecuador. Loja was just another overnight stop where we indulged on some great steaks for dinner which made a nice change to Chicken and rice. The next day we traveled to Cuenca, a beautiful colonial town with a huge cathedral and lovely markets selling flowers and of course Panama hats. Yes this is where they come from, not Panama. We went to a museum ...

... a unique cultural experience I'm definitely glad I had! And one that I am perfectly content not to repeat. :) When I told my host family later that night that I had eaten cuy, I think they vommed in their mouths a little. They've never even tried it. Apparently it's an indigenous thing. To cap off what was an amazing and monumental (no pun intended, which for me is a first) day, we went to Pululagua Crater. Other than hopping back and ...