From Canoa to Puerto lopez was meant to be quite an easy bus journey but as we are finding out, buses in Equador don´t seem to run to time. It was meant to take 4hrs and two different buses and ended up taking 8hrs and three different buses! But we did get to see a three year old shining a mans shoes at one of the bus stops, quite bizzare! So once we finally arrived we found a hostel, and we managed to find quite a hippy place on the south end of the beach. It ...

Mike and I spent 2 days in Canoa, a cool beach town, popular with Ecuadorians for weekend breaks. Here we had our first ever surfing lesson, which was good fun, but hard work. My knees were rather sore after an hour of trying to get up onto the board. Mike seemed to be doing slightly better than me, until the end.....on my very last attempt, I managed to get up and actually stayed up for a good 6 seconds, wahooo!! Apart from surfing, we just had time to chill an...

Beckys Birthday! So for this year, we spent Becksys Birthday in Quito! In the morning we took a cable car up to the top of one of the mountains overlooking the city. Unfortunately, when we got up there it had completely clouded over so we did not manage to see much, but the ride up there was very nice. After the cable car we took a taxi to the Old city and we had decided we wanted to see three of the most famous churches in Quito (there are 86 churches in total...

After La Ceiba, Mike and I made our way over to Utila, an island about an hours boat ride from the mainland. The main reason to visit this island is for scuba diving, and SEEING WHALESHARKS!!! So we decided to stay here for 4 days, and do some diving in the morning, and relax in the afternoon - good way to spend a few days!! The diving overall was pretty good. The only thing that disappointed us was the lack of fish, especially big fish. Sometimes we were search...

We arrived in La ceiba after a gruelling 10hr journey. We shared a cab with a spanish/english couple and then we went out for drinks with them later that night; somthing that Becky and I regretted the next day! Unfortunately the couple were of the none eating meat variety, and were more argumentative than me, so ended up sitting there listening to what a terrible person I was for eating meat! Bloody Veggies! Anyway, after that night, Becks and I went to the won...