Nick Curry

Last time I wrote, I was just about to leave my friend Zulma (don’t be so sad!) in Bogota. Following that, I flew from Bogota down to Guayaquil in Ecuador, on my way down the Peruvian northern coast to Lima. Unfortunately, due to a banana plantation workers’ strike, the journey took longer than expected - 3 times as long in fact, as there were road blocks every 15km for over 250km, which quickly turned a 4 hour journey into a 12 hour one. This was the first strike I witnessed in South America; and from what I saw banana plantation owners in Ecuador are to be definitely not to be messed with…