We were very pleased to see that, after we had been in Ecuador for less than 24 hours, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela settled their disagreements and there won't be a war. Actually we were asleep for most of that time anyway, catching up after a long and very confusing journey from New Zealand. We left Auckland at about 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, and after about 11 hours in the air we arrived in Santiago in Chile about 4 hours before we left Auckland. We then had to fill in Chilean Immmigration forms and have our passports stamped before collecting our luggage and walking through to the Departures Hall to join our flight to Ecuador. Our passports were stamped again and we reached Quito at 8.45 p.m., still on Thursday. The combination of jetlag, altitude (Quito is over 9000 feet up) and general confusion (it's sometimes called senility) meant that we slept round the clock, but we're fine now and war has been averted while we slept.
Tomorrow we have to be up for a bus at 7 a.m. which is taking us to the Saturday market at Otavalo, which just happens to be in the Northern Hemisphere, so we cross the equator on the way, but thankfully not the International Date Line again - that would be too much. Sunday we are up early again for the flight to Galapagos.
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If you get the chance to see Lonesome George whilst in Galapagos give him my regards.
Sounds like that's been a trip and a half. Shades of 80 days with =/- day.
Sadly George was out when we called but we saw a few of his friends, and a few other amazing creatures. Watch for our new post
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