Highlights from one year of travelling (2010-11)

It was an amazing year and I can’t believe we are home. Here are some of the best bits (along side ratings as you would expect from us): Brazil (8.5/10) Staying in the cool neighbourhood of Santa Teresa in a lovely pousada (Rio) Dancing the samba and getting drunk in Lapa (Rio) Watching the World…

Ecuador photos

A few of our snapshots from extreme Ecuador:

Cable cars, Cuenca and countryside

What we got up to in the rest of Ecuador: A downhill cycle ride to various waterfalls where you took rickety homemade cable cars across canyons to reach them (Banos) Wandered around a lovely colonial town with countless churches and stayed in the best hostel yet (Cuenca) Spent days alternating between lazing in a hammock…

Horse-riding through a cloud forest (and a crater lake)

We are now in Ecuador (our third country of the trip)! After whizzing round the sites of Quito which we weren’t too impressed with (and meeting an Aussie girl who had her bag nicked while she was wiping human excrement off herself!), we headed to the Quilotoa Loop. The loop is a group of highland…