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After an amazing few weeks in Colombia we headed down to Equador, as Connor explained in the last post, to chek out a new scene and give our livers a break. Since last week we have been staying at The Secret Garden hostel in Old Town Quito. Its a massive six floor maze of a place with lots of dorms and privet rooms, and a beautiful roof top terrace overlooking Old Town wich provides breathtaking views of the city, especially at night.

This hostel, (at first much to our disatisfaction) shuts down at eleven oclock. the bar closes, all the lights go out and there is no real common area to hang out in, but alas this foreign concept has been saving us from ourselves. its amazing how much you can accomplish in a day when your in bed by eleven thirty and up at seven thirty or eight the next morning. almost everybody here takes spanish lessons during the day up on the terrace from one of the many teachers that comes right to the hostel to teach in a very relaxed, have-a-coffee-or-a-beer-while-we-conjugate-thousands-of-verbs type of atmosphere, and its making a world of a difference in my spanish.

this hostel also has a second location about two hours from Quito out in the boondocks, right next to the world highest active volcano, and on wednesday Connor and i are heading out there to voulenteer for a month. working at the hostel in return for free room, food and drinks, we will be giving guided horseback riding tours of the andean foothills, running mountainbiking excersions and treks to nearby lakes and waterfalls. This is going to be a great oppertunity for us to enhance our language skills, extend our cash for the trip and above all else, just do some cool shit! check out their website for an idea of the experience, beacuse once we get out there, there may not be a new post for a while, no electricity means no internet… in this day and age, i wonder if we will be able to survive…

www.secretgardencotopaxi.com

Dylan