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Isabela

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

It was a very bumpy 3 hour boat ride, in what felt like a very small boat in amongst the very large waves.  Wouldn’t call it relaxing, more a case of cling on to, what felt like a plank, and hope!  However, we arrived in Isabela (Puerto Villamil) safely and without being ill, which was fortunate.

Straight away Isabela felt very different to Santa Cruz, sandy streets and laid back, much more desert island.  [read on]

Into the blue

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

One of the main things we wanted to do on arrival in the Galapagos was to dive.  For a while it was looking as though it would only be me going, but luckily Nick recovered from the nasty cold he’d been suffering from the week before.  So on arrival in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz one of our first jobs was to seek out a couple of dive companies and arrange two days of diving.

In the end we went with Scuba Iguana, they seemed to be the most professional of the companies we talked to – the only people to ask how many dives we had, when the last time we had dived was etc.  Kind of key questions, I think.  They also limited the number of divers to one dive master to 4 which was appealing. [read on]

Santa Cruz and around

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Having decided not to go on a cruise around the islands we based ourselves in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz for five nights and also spent four nights on Isabela.  We dived on two days and occupied ourselves on ... [Continue reading this entry]

Quito and around

Friday, August 31st, 2007
OK so I'm being fairly liberal in my definition of around as it encompasses Baños and Riobamba both of which are about 4 hours drive from Quito...but tough! After our snowy attempt of Cotopaxi we decided to head to Baños gringo-ville.  ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cotopaxi and around

Monday, August 13th, 2007
After an exciting night bus, which broke down and so we had to wait for three hours for a replacement, we finally found ourselves in Latacunga, which is near Cotopaxi National Park. From Latacunga we took a day trip to Saquisili ... [Continue reading this entry]

Puerto Lopez

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

After a couple of months of living around 3000m, we finally get down to sea level and air thick with oxygen!  Puerto Lopez is a pretty little fishing village, in a horseshoe bay, near Parque National Machalilla, which in turn is famous ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cuenca and around

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

So we finally leave Peru, after nearly two months here - have already made a 'side trip' to Trujillo, we don't feel the need to stay here again, so after our night bus pulls in at 5.30am, we head straight ... [Continue reading this entry]