Lima – a stop over Lima was booked as a stop over en route to Cusco. As we had to pass by the airport anyway we decided to stay a couple of nights. This was a great decision. While waiting for our flight in Quito airport we bumped into our American cruise crew mates […]
Galapagos – A once in a lifetime experience Wow what can we say – so many great National Geographical moments and photos. We saw lots of Sea lions, Blue footed boobies, Iguanas, Crabs, lizards, herons, pink flamingos, a few penguins, lots of fish and even a couple of whales and dolphins. Our itinerary on the […]
Galapagos – Life on a Catamaran I had never spent a long time on a small boat before so was a bit nervous about how I would feel. We could have toured in a larger boat but choose the catamaran as different experience for us both. We had also hoped to sail but unfortunately there […]
last 2 days in Quito- what did we do? photos to be added School was finished on Thursday so we had 2 days to explore more of Quito before heading off. We looked through the highlights of Quito and decided to spend one day exploring the old city in full. To gain more knowledge we […]
Spanish lessons week We started our lessons at Instituto Superior de Espanol on Friday as next week there is a day holiday. The holiday is officially on Monday but the school decided to work on Monday and take the holiday on following Friday. We had booked a total of 30 hours lessons – the 2 of […]
Night tour in Quito with our guide Washington https://www.facebook.com/washingtonsierra To be completed
Our first hike Today we went with a group from the spanish school on a day trip to Papallacta Hot Springs. We set off at 7am in a minibus with a group of 9 students (including us). Our first stop was outside Quito to look at the view south toward the Amazon. Unfortunately it was […]
Saturday lie in Our first weekend of travelling we tried to sleep in but we are still not quite in the American time zone so by 7am we were already having breakfast! In the morning we did a bit of washing and made a change to our hotel planned for return from the Galapagos. We […]
First free morning in Quito We had arranged to start our Spainsh lessons at 1pm so only had the morning free. We decided that we would head off walking to the New part of the town. Walking is a great way to see a new city but also a bit unnerving at times as you […]
Too tired to write this one tonight – could this be to do with the altitude in Quito? A representative from the Spanish school came to meet up this morning and show us where the school is and give us some local information. We looked around the old city and found a Supermarket Lunch in […]