Banos was a tourist town. Famous for there being a active volcano bubbling above it and also the hot sprigs. Allot of Ecuadorians go there for breaks. The tourist map was cool as it gave escape routes and told you what to do when the volcano erupes. Anyway every store was som sort of place to hire bikes of quads or tours of all sorts of activities. I decided to give rafting a go. The river was bigger than usual as the had been alot of rain. The drive to the river...

So arrived into quito after a small detour via columbia where the world most s***e airport is with a million guards. Quito is considerably higher than alot of other cities meaning there is less oxygen which was instantly noticable. I got a taxi to a hostel called The Secret Garden. Obciously my room would be on the top floor which is noramally an annoyance but is even worse with a massive backpack and no oxygen. My first mistake was to sit down and have a nice co...

So myself and Anthony(the texan guy) got a taxi to the bus station and had the fright of our lifes. After paying the taxi driver we got out the cab to find the boot open and our bags gone. Panicking and shouting at the taxi driver we found out he had figured out where we were going and had called his mates over to put our bags on the right bus. So of we went running down the road after the bus and our bags, we got it stopped and found our luggage underneath. The ...