medellin to tolu INFERNO

bus caught on fire or to be more correct arsonist set fire to the bus at 3am by splashing gas over the seats while passengers were still on the bus.



After getting to Tolu a sleepy caribean town with a slight reminder of South America I headed off to the mud baths!!! What is called a volcano but is more like a hole with thermal heat that keeps the mud warm and the locals add water to keep the consitancy nice a fluid. I had heard that it was a bit of a tourist trap but being there during the week I was the only one for a good hour and then was joined by a large group of Colombians. It´s cool to go to a tourist spot with local tourists rather than Gringos

Quito, Ecuador - Popayan, Colombia

The trip to Popayan Colombia cost me two iPods a USB Charger my camera batteries memory cards, card reader, stand and 50 USD. Not a very good travel day infact I have only been robbed once before (and not %100 I hadnt misplaced the money) in a hostel before.

Floreana Galapgos Volcane Chica

Floreana Galapgos Volcane Chica

Galapagos tour day 5

Day 5 Galápagos
Isla Santa Cruz
/ Darwin Centre
Giant Land Tortis

Day 4 Galapagos
Isla Floreana
- Bahia Post Office, lava tunnel
- Flamingos, ermit rab, sea turtle nests

Galapagos tour day 3

Day 3 Galapagos
Isla Española
- aquatic iguanas, rays
- Albatros, boobies blus and masked and blow hole large aquatic iguanas.

Galapagos tour day 2

Galapagos Day 2
Isla Santa Fe
- biting sea lion, cactus shiney petrified gwana, cross bread of aquatic and land iguana
- photographers on sea lion beach, large trunks

Galapagos tour day 1

Galapagos Tour Day 1
Day 1 Galapagos


San Cristobal (lobos)
The Queen of the Galapagos is a luxury class catamaran boat four levels decadent goodness only out done by the lovingly prepared food. Mark and I did not pay for this boat in fact we payed for a lower class boat at a discount and payed for a higher class then we wanted to too, but with the time constraints that I had we went for it.
At the airport we tried to join a group of people wearing similar buttons to our boat the Istrella del mar II but were told that we weren't on the list and asked to see our itinerary which we produced only to be told that we would have to go on another boat that had room, we had met some passengers from the new boat so we eventually consented and were on our way.





WOW was this boat nice we unpacked and settled down to lunch counting our good fortune. Mid way through lunch we were told that two passengers on Istrella were supposed to be on the Queen. Not wanting to leave without some sort of compensation we told our guide we didn't want to leave. to our surprise we were granted our wish and remained right where we were.



The first day we swam with sea lions and tried to out pace them. which was as fun as unrealistic as the pursuit.

Male Frigate birds have a red pouch attached to their bills used to attract the females.
- frigate birds, dancing blue footed boobie