Date: 30th September 2006 Quito part 2 - Day 1 of the tour, although we were not actually meeting the group till 5:00 pm (there was a message on the board) this offically counts as day 1 of our 9 week tour. We did however find out which room the tour leader was in and knocked on his door to introduce ourselves, ask him where we could change travellers cheques and a good place to burn photo´s to DVD. This did wake him up (oops) although I don´...

Date: 26th September - 29th September 2006Quito Part 1: Hey everyone, well we have finally made it to South America we arrived at about 7pm local time and got a taxi straight to out hostel "The Secret Garden", the altitude didn´t hit us quite as hard as we thought although I did have a kind of tension headache for the first few days (Quito is 2,850 metres above sea level). The taxi took about 20 mins and only cost $10 for the three of us which was...