Day 6 30/03/06 Up at 4am to catch first flight of 4 today!! ** During the flights I was thinking about a couple of things that happened in Rio. A local gave me some great advice as we landed at Rio ''Try not to look like a foriegner'' it's hard to blend in when you're the only one carry a ruck sack and your skin hasn't seen sun for neatrly a year. Don't always trust advice from locals if they are trying to sell you something, one my first day I trusted what they told me about the exchange rate in Rials and ended up paying what I thought was much money in Rials but actually cost $60 for my shoes cleaned and $25 for a beach cocktail. The Gringo wised up after that...........I'll put it down to jet lag, but made me laugh anyway. ** Rio to Sao Paulo 1hour 10mins, Sao Paulo to Santiago in Chile 4 hours 10 mins, *Just in between flights in Santiago, saw some stunning snow covered mountinins as we landed and not sure whther I should be worried or not, but two military aricraft are doing flypasts of the control tower and loop the loops....maybe they've just watched Top Gun for the first time!* Santiago to Guayaquil in Ecuador 5 hours 5 mins and then finally Guayaquil to Quito in Ecuador 50 mins. I will be staying in Quito for 2/3 nights before flying out to the boat in the Galapogos. I'll update when I can :o)