Arrived in Latacunga a bit worse for wear after four days of the squids and having not eaten for the last two days.. Who would like to be travelling alongside me when I haven´t eaten?! An angel at the hostel gave me crushed garlic and lemon juice (I felt like I was back at the blue house!) and that combined with the antibiotics worked like magic.. Up at 6am the next morning to catch the bus to a little town called Zumbahua up in the mountains where the Saturday ...

Arrived in Baños on Wednesday, having heard that it is a relaxing little town with lots of lovely walks to do in the mountains nearby..and massages.. Aware of the risks of being only a few kilometres (and directly in one of the lava channels) of Volcano Tungurahua, an active volcano for which the locals will take you up to watch `nightly eruptions´. So when our beds started shaking at 7am on Thursday morning I looked out the window to see if anyone on the stree...

Ecuador! Still swaying and star struck from the Galapagos, Soumo and I have travelled close to 300 kilometres over the past two days, through the Andes in a combination of buses and pick up trucks.. The landscape is quite different to the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes and more like a cross between the Alps and Ireland, a lot greener and more cows! We visited a little co-operative town today called Salinas, at 3,500m above sea level, which produces chocolate, pasta,...