We hope you are all well. Don't hesitate to send us a message through this site as we can pick the messages up on our email on our phone. We are in Peru for the next 20 days where the mobile service is excellent. Tuesday 29 March 2011 It was goodbye to the Upper Amazon, after a wonderful time. We will see the Napo River again, but from the Brazil side, but not until June. We caught the local bus back to Tena before catching a touring bus where Tom and I sat up the back. It was a full bus and some of our group had to stand up until the locals started to get off. We had a 5 hour trip, again seeing amazing scenery. This time we were winding our way back up ... read more

After departing Brisbane at 8.35 on Thursday 24 March 2011, we took 27 hours to Quito, via Auckland, Santiago (Chile) and Guayaquil (Ecuador). Quito is in the Andes, the capital of Ecuador and 2800metre above sea level (asl). Temperature was about 10 degrees when we arrived and had been raining. We stayed at Hotel Sabastian for the firtst night. San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito (Spanish pronunciation: kito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river valley basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active volcano in the Andes mountains. With a population of over 2 million, Quito is the second most populous city in Ecuador, after Guayaquil. It is also the capital of the Pichincha provice and the seat of ... read more

I am attaching a map so you can see where we are going to go. We start at Quito, Ecuadore.... read more