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The whole group sat around the hostel ready for the first day of planning |
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LUNCH! |
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Culture!!! or not |
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The Guys just hanging out while some of the others negociated prices for our trip in the morning |
After being woken up in the morning by the piercing alarm, we
were greeted in the kitchen by mouth-watering croissants and museli, with a
special raspberry sauce-which was definitely well-earned! Due to the intense
nature of our expedition, we had to dedicate this day towards careful thought
and planning. Following this, we ate lunch, which was a fantastic four courses
of quite traditional Ecuadorian food; all for the grand total of $3 each.
We then laboured to round up food for the following day and
the start of our acclimatisation trek. After much skilful haggling used by
Louis Magown, followed by many daunting phone calls, we all basked in glory as
we saved a whopping $20 for transport. Then we absorbed the rich culture of
Ecuador (Ed. that made me laugh as I spent the day walking between the hostel
and the phone shop...in a very developed city), by walking around the streets
of Ecuador. Finally, we all relished a very exotic burger and chips meal in a
local restaurant (Ed. oh it was exotic alright!). A definite highlight of the
day was the numerous pictures taken with random girls-a very popular hobby of
certain people (cough) Jerome (Ed. Aye it’s the quiet ones that are the worst).
One final question remains-will Louis get diarrhoea after eating tap
water-filled ice cream! (Ed. after
being told not to BTW folks!)
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Mr M liking the Chelsea sign |
We’re all off to bed now as most of us are still on UK
time.
Kiran Robbin
I'll send toilet paper on the next post
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