The South America Chronicles - Uno

Just a few days into the trip and there has been plenty of drama so far. It began with a 4 hour delay on our flight from Madrid to Lima, which meant we missed our flight through to Quito. The result being hat we had to spend an unplanned night in Lima - which after plenty of stress, worked out OK with us being able to organise another flight the next morning. Ironically, it also mean that we missed the huge earthquake in Peru - that you have probably heard about - being in the air when we were supposed to be at teh airport. In fact, we didn´t learn about the earthquake until the next morning, but by all accounts it has been quite a bad one.

But since all that drama, things have gone well. We have just spent the weekend up at the market town of Otavalo. Markets were very cool, a lot less touristy than we thought it would be. We went for a walk in the surrounding hillsides for some good views - it is an incredibly vlcanic country.

It is also incredibly cheap. We´ve just been out for a night on the town where dinner cost us $10 each and cocktails were $1.50 each. Though this is not necessarily a good thing as the girls are struggling to handle their drink at altitude!

We are off tomorrow to the Black Sheep Inn for four days, looking forward to some relaxing time - reading, cards, and eating & drinking. We may even manage to fit in some hiking and mountain biking as well. And then Brad and I embark on our climb up Mt Cotopaxi - I´m not looking forward to that, much!! Will update you on it all next time we come into contact with the ínterweb´.