Leaving Coda Vista Saying goodbye to Swiss couple, Peter and Anita and to our hosts Andy and Gaby, we set off down the mountainside. Andy had given us directions to get to Cotopaxi National Park on a small road. Traffic in the city was quiet and we were out of…
It was great to be in our own bed in Poki last night. It was cold and wet outside, and inside the Caranex too! 14degC when we went to bed. By morning the clouds had parted and there was some weak sunshine, enough to dry the Caranex. Not a lot…
North Santa Cruz To ensure we saw as much as possible on our short cruise, our wake up call was at 05.30. At 06.00 we were on the pangas and on an excursion to a sheltered bay surrounded by mangroves. Except our panga broke down. We were in two separate…
I really enjoyed our bike ride yesterday. Jen didn’t have such a good start though. When I looked around she was lying in the deep sand with the bike on top of her. With only an imprint of the front gear cog on a leg and a bruised ego, she…
Last night we retired early in view of a forthcoming 05.30 wake-up call. We were due to leave Santa Cruz to sail to Isabela at 23.00. The captain starting the engine woke me up. It wasn’t rough, but there was obviously more movement, so it took me a while to…
After setting the alarm clock last night at 6.45am so we would have time for breakfast and to meet our new guide at 8am, we both crashed. The alarm duly went off and we hurriedly washed and dressed and went down for a very nice breakfast. Surprisingly, as I was…
I couldn’t get to sleep last night. It’s always the same when we have to get up very early. I always worry the alarms won’t go off. However, we were successfully up at 04.00. Struggling to get dressed in the restrictive space within Poki, without the tent. We had a…
Our accommodation, as Jen said yesterday, was in the home of a Syrian/Ecuadorian couple and had a distinct Middle Eastern flavour. Syrian music playing and friends visiting. On returning from our meal in Poki last night, one of the guests had a tiny monkey sitting on his head. Breakfast this…
Bellavista I was sitting in the front of Poki and Dennis was preparing breakfast, when a van pulled up beside us. Out stepped a gentleman who came over to Poki. I thought he was a visiting tourist from the U.K. He was, however, Bellavista’s owner, Richard, a quintessential Brit from…
It was a cloudless night and temperatures were down to single figures and we slept like babes..:) Packing up and saying goodby to our brilliant hosts Andy & Gabby at Coda Vista, and also neighbours from Spain, David and Nuria and two beautiful children of 6 and 4. We viewed…