Early enough start again today. I'm about to say a final farewell to Peru - for this trip anyway. Heading to the airport in pretty much rush hour traffic this morning, so I allowed about 1hr 30min for the trip. Unfortunately what I didn;t allow for was the fact that Lima is probably the most polluted city I've ever been in, and for some reason t...

Hola I havent posted for awhile because I have been having so much fun. At the moment I am in Qutio, Ecuador getting ready to go to the Galapagos. Since my last post I have gone through panama and flew to Ecuador. After the Caribean Coast of Costa Rica I crossed the border into Panama. This Crossing was pretty easy, however the countries were co...

Today was the day that our family got to meet my dad and Rebecca´s sponsored children. We met them at Compassion headquaters and neither my dad or my sister recognized them. We took them up a gondola to see the city from the top of a mountain. The view was absolutley amazing. We hiked a ways up and it got really hard to breathe because of the el...

Got up just after five to make my way to the airport. As I walked towards the main street I realized that people were still partying. Felt like I stood out a little in my white Karaka hat and my purple and pink (bought as a teenager) backpack. The streets were well lit and I found a bus stop OK. Some people with banjos and pan flutes started ja...

I really wanted to get out of Quito and start my travels but I was a little ahead of ¨schedule¨ so I decided to cram 20 hours of Spanish lessons in the last five days. It was a gruelling refresher but helpful and I have a little more material to study with over the coming weeks. I said my goodbyes to a few of the longer term residents at the Sec...

So we just finished our Spanish lessons. I had a great time discussing the way people say animals make noise in Quito compared to at home, and of course, just talking (very poorly) in Spanish. Downtown Quito is rather hopping at night. All sorts of gringos come out when they were no where to be seen during the day. Well, were going back home and...

Hi guys!!! Just to let you know we´ve arrived safely (minus most of the bags, which should arrive tonight, but safely!). The hostel is really nice, hummingbirds keep buzzing around and the rooms are surprisingly well-equipped (lots of blankets, towels and soap luckily!!!). Tomorrow we leave for Sigchos. The views of the Andes are breathtaking, w...

A nice and relaxing first day in Quito. A pleasant wander around the old town was only marred by the fact that Tara had a jumper stolen from her backpack while it was on her back! Unbelievable! We nipped up to the Panecillo hill to get some views of the whole of Quito (which itself sits at 2850m, so it´s pretty high), then headed down to the new...

Living in Quito Ola amigos, esta es Sheila hablando porque Chris es in Australia gagnando dinero! Yo soy en mi secunda semana de 1-1 classes en español y estoy cansado después quatro horas cada dia...yo estoy empezando me hablar a mi mismo en español!!!........... I´m sorry there won´t be any photos this time but Chris has the laptop and photos ...

Well this is going to be the last entry for a while as we take a unplanned stop in London for about 6-8 months to keep the Oz immigration happy and to fatten up the reserves - money that is. The final stop after Brazil was Ecuador. As we have been here before 6 years ago, we did not stay for too long. We met Graeme and celebrated being in Quito ...