http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie "We may be some time" Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We arrived in Quito Sunday afternoon and decided to stay in the old town.  After finding a hostel we tried to find somewhere for lunch.  The town was surprisingly quiet, the roads were closed to cars and there were a lot of people walking and cycling, but almost everything was ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/quito.html From Latacunga we decided to go to Otavalo for a few days as several people had told us it was a nice place to see.  We arrived Friday afternoon and spent a while looking around the market in the main square, a big crafts market, mainly aimed at tourists but ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/otavalo.html The bus from Puerto Lopez to Latacunga took longer than expected, after leaving at about 5am we finally arrived in the evening and went to the first hostel we saw.  Then we explored the very limited choices of places to eat and ended up back at the Chinese across the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/latacunga-and-quilotoa.html After our experiences in Riobamba we decided to change our plans, have a break from the mountains and the bad weather and head to the coast.  We decided to go to the small town of Puerto Lopez, about half way up the coast of Ecuador.  Our first day here we went ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/puerto-lopez.html After an overnight bus to Riobamba we had a lazy day looking round the town, organising stuff for the next few days and catching up with things like doing the laundry. The following day we went to Banos a small toursity town about an hour away. It was a nice ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/going-blind-in-riobamba.html We got a bus early in the morning from Mancora to Aguas Verde, the border town.  At the previous stop, a women had got on and said that she was coming with us to help us cross the border and that this was part of the service included in the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/on-to-ecuador.html I spent my last few days in Peru visiting a few places in the far north.  I spent 2 days in Chiclayo, a  big city but it doesn´t have much for tourists.  I went on a tour which visited an archaeological site and a couple of museums about pre-Incan tombs ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/north-peru.html After a day and a night on buses I arrived at Chachapoyas at about 5am so spent the rest of the day enjoying doing not a lot.  Chachapoyas is only a small town and there isn´t really much to do in the actual town itself, but there a lot of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/trekking-to-kuelap.html From Huaraz i had to back track a bit and spend a day in Trujillo, to get back my camera that I somehow managed to leave there when I was there before. From there I got the bus to Cajamarca. There isn´t really much to do in Cajamrca, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/cajamarca.html finally made it to Huaraz after the strikes ended. Its a relatively small town in the best area for climbing and trekking in Peru. I spent the day finding out about trekking in the area and eventually decided to go for an 8 day trek on the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/annandkatie/trekking-in-huaraz.html