Ecuador

Well here´s a surprise - some photos of me, and in some pretty amazing places in Ecuador. I´ve been hiking around the Andes in southern Ecuador - drinking water from streams reputed to give the local people long life - but the wrinkles didn´t fade!

Celebrating with a banana on the top of the world after climbing into tropical cloud forest - straight up it was too!

Here I am at El Pato waterfall on the Rio Yambala in a different part of the Podocarpus National Park to the cloud forest. As you can see I´m still short, the waterfall´s 15m.

Met a nice American woman who´s looking for somewhere to live here and we´ve now travelled on together to Cuenca, the city of panama hats. And then we´re both off to the coast tomorrow. Too soon i fear, it´ll be back home. Mixed feelings on that one!