Cuenca, Ecuador, South America I took my time getting out of the hostel today, and checked out at 11:30am. I got a taxi to the bus station and found a van that goes to Cuenca in just three hours, instead of the normal bus that takes six hours. It was $12 instead of $8 for the bus, but that was well worth it to me. The van was nice, and I got to sit in the front with the A/C…
Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America I did nothing today, and it was great. I watched a few TV shows, uploaded some blogs that I didn’t have good enough wifi to upload when I was on the islands, and just chilled. I went for a walk around the mall down the street, did a little shopping, and got to go to the cinema. I saw the movie Lucy, with Scarlett Johansson. It was weird, but good. It was nice just to get…
Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America Today was football day, and it was phenomenal! I got up late, had a great breakfast at the hostel, and then got to watch the pre game shows, and all the NFL games that were showing on my dad’s TV. It was brilliant! I wasn’t able to do that last week for the opening week of the NFL, but I got to see it this week. It worked out well though because I missed the Patriots…
Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America I left the Galapagos Islands today to head back to the mainland. It started with an early rise in Puerto Ayora so I could get packed up and ready to go. I met Rike and Joe at their hotel at 9am and we shared a taxi to the canal, where we then got the ferry to Baltra, and then a bus to the airport. We got to the airport exactly two hours before the flight, which…
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, South America I had a pretty disappointing morning, but a nice day overall. I woke up at 6am, I felt great, and was really excited to go diving! I went down to the dive shop at 6:50am, and the shop was closed. I can only assume that meant that the Colombians never showed up last night so I would have been the only one to dive this morning. I sat there for about 15 minutes, but no…
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, South America For the first time ever on my travels, I got food poisoning. Last night was horrific. I was sick all night, getting up every hour, and not getting any sleep. I’m assuming it was food poisoning, because now it’s night time and I’m already feeling 90% better. The problem was that this completely ruined my plan to go diving. I was supposed to meet at the dive center at 7am, so since I was awake,…
Puerto Villamil, Ecuador, South America I had a great day today on Isabela! It started out with a snorkeling tour to Los Tuneles, which is a bunch of lava tunnels and formations. We took the boat out about 45 minutes to reach the site, and then we took a little walking tour with our guide Tamara (the same guide we had yesterday for the volcano) and looked at some of the wildlife. There were a lot of blue footed boobies,…
Puerto Villamil, Ecuador, South America I had a great first day on Isabela, but it was absolutely exhausting! I didn’t sleep very well last night, like I maybe got two hours of sleep in total, so I was up well before my 6:20am alarm went off. I met the guys at their hotel at 7:15am, and was lucky enough to get on the same volcano tour that came to pick them up. It was $30 for the tour that included…
Puerto Villamil, Ecuador, South America I had another great day on the islands today! I checked out of my hostel, met up with Raz and grabbed some breakfast at a local cafe called The Rock. We went by the dive shop and picked up our photos that Leo took of us yesterday, and then headed off on a small tour of the island. The hostel told us that it would be $40, but we went directly to a taxi driver…
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, South America Today I officially crossed the Galapagos Islands off my list of things to see before I die, because I feel like I’ve seen them properly now. I got to see it on land yesterday, and today I got to see it under water, and it was spectacular! I got up at 6am, met Raz at my hotel, and went over to the dive shop. We grabbed a hot roll for breakfast and then got on…