Hi!!!! Hope everyone is ok back home....Happy Birthday to Jeannine....and congratulations to Leigh & Carla for setting the big day!!! We're so excited :) We've spent a great week in H-Town with Jermaine and Geeta, who fed us and looked after us while we were there. We know Jay-Jay will be very jealous of our stay in Houston. We got to meet Geeta (Jermaines better half!), and we had a BBQ round at Jose' house, with great food and wine. We had a chille...

Hi!!! Hope everyone is well back home?? We spent 10 days in Colombia, 5 in Bogota (the Capital) and 5 in Cartagena (the Caribbean coast). The journey to Bogota was eventful...a 5 hour bus ride from Quito in Ecuador to Tulcan, a little town a few miles from the boarder. Then we took a taxi from Tulcan to the Ecuadorian boarder, got our passports stamped then walked over into Colombia, got our passports stamoed again, then got a taxi to Ipiales, a little town ...

Hi, We spent 2 nights in Quito. We probably would have stayed longer, but were running out of time! We stayed in the Old Town, as we understood this to be safer than the New Town. Whilst here, we did our own little walking tour of the city, in and around the Plaza Grande. We saw the presedential palace, the cathedral, we went to the monestary of Santa Catalina but it was closed :( the church of Santa Domingo, and hte Centro Cultural Metropolitano. We were q...

Hi, The Jungle was AMAZING!!! We stayed for 5 days at the Cyabeno National Park. We went from Banos to Lago Agrio, then a 2 hour bus ride from Lago Agrio to where we met our guide. Our guide was called Mama Arora, and was a machete wielding, 82 year old great grandma with 3 teeth! We travelled 3 hours down the Rio Aguarico to a lodge with no name. We had tea, then was given a night tour of the jungle by Santiago, Mama Arora's 14 year old grandson. It was ...

Hi... So, from Montanita we arrived in Banos on 4th August. It's a small town, but a great starting point to do other things. On the second day, we went to the hot baths. It ws full of locals, and it appeared tht none of them were able to swim. They just seemed to splash around quite a lot. Luckily, they had a seperate 'relaxation' pool which was much nicer. We decided to go for a little bike ride whilst in Banos as well. The lady who hired the bikes to us tol...