Kristy & Adam - South America Adventures

Hola!
Thought I´d drop you a quick update about our exciting Volcano trek!
We went with a small group from our hostel, we drove about 1/2 an hour outside of the city centre, then drove a further 1/2 an hour up a dirt track towards the Volcano. We were droppped of and walked for about an hour and a half up steep rocky roads at 4800 metres altitude. Let me tell you this is not easy! At least we are now in some form of shape for what the Inca trail will be like next week!
We walked and walked, and got really dizzy and disorientated but finally made it to our first stop where we took some snaps and had morning tea. After a quick break we walked and climbed further and further up the mountain climing over and up rocks the whole way. We finally reached to summit about an hour later. At first we couldnt see into the volcano as it was covered by clouds, then the weather quickly changed and we had the chance to look right down into the active volcano. WOW! About 2 minutes later a storm blew in and there were fierce winds, lightning, thunder, then follwed by snow!! Our guide was like ´Lets get the hell outa here!!!´
I was so scared I´ve never walked down a moutain so fast in my life!!! But since I´m typing this you know we are both ok!! We are now ready to attack the Inca trail in a few days, till then, adios...

Kristy & Adamo

Hola from Ecuador!
We both love this country. The people are super friendly and the country side is absolutely beautiful.

Quito is a large city with a really nice old town, when we were there we just roamed the old town streets. We are heading back there in a weeks time to do a trek around the rim of the city´s volcano.

From Quito we travelled to a small place called Riobamba to complete the devils nose train ride. Its a 5 hour journey through the Andes the best part is its on top of the trains roof! It was spectacular weaving through the valleys and little comunities along the way. We threw lollies out to the kids running by the train waving.
In the evening got a bit of a fright! Was having dinner in the restaurant and the ground started to vibrate, I first thought it was a truck going past the restaurant, but then the vibrations continued and all the chandaliers in the restaurant were moving side to side, thankfully it stopped, but we found out the following day there was an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the richter scale in Peru!

We are currently in Cuenca, its a small colonial city with lots of churches and beautiful old town. Tommorrow we are planning to visit some of the smaller communities to see the local markets.

Hope you are all well. We are putting photos online today of our travels up to date so enjoy

Kristy & Adam