After our disastrous hostel stay in Lima we were pleased to be leaving the city. It was our first day on the Peru hop bus. We are not ones for bus tours and prefer taking the general buses but we decided to take Peru hop for convenience. The first day saw us heading south to …
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Surfing, sushi and heading south
Mancora is the first main stop off that people entering Peru from the north come to. It’s a sleepy surfing town designed more for yoga and chillaxing then anything else. After getting a few hours of kip post the night bus, we wandered along the beach towards the centre of the town. The beach is …
Volcanoes, hot springs and arriving in Peru
Having decided that 3 days of walking wasn’t sufficient we took a bus out to Cotopaxi volcano. The bus dropped us off at the entrance to the park where we then had to haggle for one of the many Toyota Hilux’s waiting to take passengers on the standard tour of the area. We paid the …
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Rain, rain and more rain
The Quilotoa Loop is, as the name suggests, a walking loop that takes in some stunning scenery just west of Latacunga and culminates in a steep climb up to an extinct volcano and the lake in its crater. After a very bumpy and windy bus journey, during which we both felt sick both from the …
Big city life and the cloud forests
Quito. Where do I begin? We got picked up by our hostel at the airport and the journey was terrifying. 60 minutes of holding onto anything stable in the car. At corners the driver sped up. No one indicates. Where there are 2 lanes the cars seemed to make 3. We were glad to arrive …
Galapagos Part 3
Friday morning dawned and it was time for us to don our waterproofs and put in the earplugs again as we were off to San Cristobal, one of the other main islands. It was just as well that we did as we got thoroughly soaked on the way over. It did make us chuckle to …
Galapagos – Part 2
After our first 2 dives we came out of the water feeling pretty shaken and exhausted. We were due to dive Gordon rocks the next day which is renowned for having strong currents. Feeling pretty nervous about doing this we decided to change our dive schedule to do a few more easier dives before going …
Galapagos – Part 1
After a good sleep it was another early start to get the airport. Breakfast was included at our hotel. My gcse Spanish was seriously rusty and the lady serving breakfast didn’t speak English. Luckily there was only one option to have so no conversation was required. We were soon in a taxi back to the …
Big boys (and girls) camping, aka life after Ronda
After an emotional farewell to Ronda – chiefly because we only discovered upon handing her back that there was a ‘free stuff’ section at the hire place that would have saved us a lot of money 6 weeks earlier – we grabbed an Uber and went to pick up our hire car. It was weird …
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North along Highway 1
We arrived at El Capitan state beach and grabbed a great ocean view RV spot. Although it sounds crazy, travelling is pretty tiring as you’re always moving from place to place, so we took our kindles down to the beach for a rest! We spotted a pod of dolphins about 100m off shore which was …
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