The bus leaving Cobanaconde is delayed a few minutes while a local lady calmly enquires the ticket price for her beloved sheep. It seems the driver isn’t too keen on having her sheep roam the aisles with the other animals already on board and so they begin packing the bemused…
Category: Travel & Adventure
The Condors – The Condors!!
Getting up before sunrise is always difficult to do but once the hard part is done the experience is usually rewarded – even if that is simply to relieve your bladder and slip back into a pre-warmed bed. Even more so when you catch a rickety local bus in the…
Colca Canyon – The trek of slow death
We left Cobanaconde by 9am, early by our standards but apparently not early enough according the merciless Peruvian sun (second only in power to Queensland – true fact!). Just outside of town we found the start of the trail down into the canyon and began our descent. We could see…
Baños
Why anyone would want to name a town after a toilet is beyond my understanding (probably because it Baños actually means baths and there are plenty of hot springs located about town..) but Baños is a quiet holiday town devoted to the local attractions: aforementioned hot springs, nearby waterfalls and…
Cotopaxi
Several hours sitting in the back of a ute (on cushions for comfort of course..) sees us arrive at the Secret Garden in the large valley spread out below Cotopaxi. Cotopaxi is much like Kilimanjaro in that it’s a massive free standing volcanic cone, except that the valley we’re in…
Quito – It Begins..
30 hours and 4 flights after we set off we’ve finally arrived here in Quito, Ecuador – our first stop on what we hope is a round the world adventure. The rough plan is to spend the next 13 weeks making our way through South America before boarding a flight…