SO!!!!! I think Nick updated you on Cuenca and that we were goin to leave for Mancora on the Peruvian North coast the next day and that was tuesday. BUT NO WE ARRIVED YESTERDAY!!!!!!! The Story Well we went to the bus station heading for Machala so we could get a bus from there to Mancora. BUT NO! There was a strike so we asked if maybe we could go the next day and they said maybe but the strike might still be on so we stayed in Cuenca for the night and went b...

Hi everyone!! This is my first attempt at blogging!  We`re currently sat in an internet cafe in a place called Cuenca in south Ecuador.  We`re hoping to move onto Peru in the morning!  After our first stop in Quito, we took a 3.5hr bus ride to a place called Banos!  Banos is a really nice little town surrounded by huge mountains, (although today I discovered the word "Bano" also means toilet in Spanish).  As you`ve probably...

Hello Everyone, We arrived yesterday after a 30 hour mammoth journey altogether and it is deffinately worth it our hostel is great and the taxi man that brought to the airport extremeley funny. (All they do is beep!!!!!!)  The spanish learning didnt go to well on the plane and we are now thinking maybe we should have learnt a little before hand. ;) Off to the equator today which should be fun on a local bus which doesnt stop you just jump off as we found ye...