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Adios Ecuador, Hola Peru!
After a rubbish rushed 5.30am breakfast of horrible coffee and dry rolls we all checked out and waited for Matt to collect us. Sue and Derek the newbies, joining us here in Cuenca were already on board having stayed at the other hotel. All feeling **** we left the intros until later on and mostly slept on the way to the border with Peru. With our passports ready we queued up to firstly exit Ecuador and then to enter Peru. Unfortunately Matt had driven past the ...
Tats just silly!
... line of a kidney as if it had been cut out, with yellow police tape across it saying "esta rinon ya fue robado" (in English this essentially means: This kidney has already been stolen). After all, My next stop was Colombia; a country in which my mother has expressed a number of concerns about me visiting, and I figured that this might just help her to relax a little more, knowing that she would no longer have to worry about me losing a vital organ... I know, what a ...
The Greek Villa That Never Slept
... happened happened and hopefully I will be able to see it through and enjoy it from beginning to end.
This trip was not easy, neither to plan nor to endure. The fact that when you are on the backpacker trail you don't have to wake up to an alarm and take orders from someone doesn't make it easy. I think back to the approximate two dozen places to stay, the handfuls of buses and taxis and walking around lost with a crumbly little map tearing at the seams. I have gotten rained ...
Mancora: sun, sand and ceviche!
... and regular.
One evening we had the entire resort to ourselves and enjoyed a beautiful swim under the stars. A stunning starry night! And on almost every other meal we enjoyed sampling many 'ceviches' around town which we grew to love: a Peruvian specialty consisting of raw white fish literally soaked in lemon/lime juice, chillis, coriander and red onion - so much lemon juice is used to the point the acid cooks the fish by itself! Corn is usually served on the side along ...
Beach house life in Mancora
We haven't seen the Ocean since we left Cartagena (Colombia) about 2 months ago. Come to think of it, we haven't really enjoyed a beach since we left Santa Teresa in Costa rica over 3 months ago. So I'm excited like a kid about this stay ...