Heading home

After three weeks, I had to say goodbye to Ecuador. My last morning on San Cristóbal I had to get up quite early again to catch the ferry back to Santa Cruz. As it was just start of school holidays, it wasn't only the typical tourists taking the ferry, but it seemed like half of the island was wanting to leave as well. Because of this, it also took quite long until all people (including all their luggage) were actually 'stored' on the ferry. The ride then was accordingly uncomfortable, but after 2 hours, we finally reached Santa Cruz. (Here, all the people and luggage had to he unloaded using the taxi boats again.)

From Puerto Ayora, I was driven to the other side of the island again, took the short ferry over the canal to Baltra, and got into the (completely overcrowded) 5-minutes bus to the airport. With a last view out of the window I said goodbye to Galapagos.

Again, the flight went via Guayaquil, and on the way back to Quito, I once more had a beautiful view on the volcanos. After an hour drive from the airport, I finally reached my hotel in Quito around 7 in the evening. I didn't really do much except for a quick dinner (I finally managed to try some guinea pig), as I was going to be picked up to head back to the airport at 5 in the morning again.

I hadn't managed to get a direct flight back to Amsterdam, so I was heading towards Mexico-City on the next morning. Mexico seems to have special rules for all planes coming from South America, meaning all passengers had to go through immigration and customs, and all luaggage was checked. This procedure took almost an hour, which, for me, was no problem; I had a 6 hour layover. Finally I also figured out, that I actually had to change terminals, and where I would find the train taking me to Terminal 1. And so I waited for my flight to Amsterdam, not without enjoying a Mexican steak and beer for lunch/dinner.

In the evening, I could finally get on my plane to Amsterdam, where we arrived about 9.5 hours later. And after a bit more waiting time, I got on the plane back to Munich.