Mark 29/5: The bus ride down was up there in terms of safety with the dodgy boat ride in the Galapagos. At times the wheels on the bus were screeching as we were going around the corners and the cracks in the front windscreen were a hell of a lot larger on arrival than when we had departed due to the stress the bus structure was going through as...

SO 12 hours later, on Friday morning, we arrived in Puerto Escondido...surfers paradise!! We had booked some cabañas for us, but Amelia had some friends here already and they checked thm out for us...they were horirble apparently and nowhere near the beach! So they booked us into their hotel, called Hotel Rockaway for only 1 pound more...it is A...