 We're just watching the news and apparently Guayaquil is under water and this is our destination for today We don't understand too much because everything is in Spanish but the pictures look like that Wow! Oh no It's like completely under water I can just see the word Yuvia which means rain and torrent which is like torrent Oh shit Oh no It's probably where our hotel is And Vivo, like it's live, it's just now This is what it looks like right now Well, we will prepare ourselves with our raincoats I would say This year's all my toilet paper I collected really proudly over the last days when we actually stayed in hotels or in rooms but half of it is wet now Even though I keep it in plastic bags it's just, yeah everything is wet unbelievable Hi, I'm Lavi And I'm Oli And this is our hero Bumblebee Together we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by Motorcycle Join us for season 3 here in South America Good morning world, welcome back to the channel It's day number 334 on our circumnavigation around the globe by Motorcycle And we are here in the town of Alamor in Ecuador and look at the view from the balcony of our room We are not in the desert anymore We're in the tropical mountains of Ecuador with banana trees and it's so nice and green but it's very rainy as well It's so incredibly wet Yesterday was like a crazy rainstorm and we were basically riding through rivers and lakes to reach here Luckily this place is on a hill so we don't really have a lot of pedals here around We can only hope that the roads today won't be too flooded but let me show you the route for today So we are here just at the beginning of Ecuador and today we are going to be heading over to the coast at Mashallah before following it round to finish the day in Guayaquil Yes, after eight days constantly on the road since leaving Cusco Guayaquil is going to be our resting stop Yes, we have just about under 200 miles to get there Our navigation says it will take us five hours It's already eight o'clock so better hit the road, let's go So we've got a mega mega hill this morning When I came in yesterday I slid my front wheel on this big gear So I'll go straight and I'll turn once I'm past this little bit of concrete Okay? Yeah, it's actually slightly right there, isn't it? It's like I've got like algae or moss on it Yeah, now I've got to get the brakes on because there is some serious, serious hill here Oh my hell Oh my hell Oh my hell Wow Yeah I think we never went down a hill like this Yeah, this hill was the steepest It's like nearly 90 degrees, man Wow Yeah, but after seeing all the flooding yesterday you can understand why they build the town on top of the hill Definitely So yeah, our clothes are totally soaking wet from yesterday despite the fact that we had our rain gear on it was just not enough to hold back that that happened yesterday that was just mind-bogglingly wet Got through everything and so we're just soaked through the inside of my helmet is wet the socks are wet, the boots are wet I think rain like this, nothing will help Nothing Yeah I mean it was pouring it was like riding through a swimming pool This is a country that gets a lot of rain it's got the rainforest it's got the Amazon rainforest here in Ecuador and yet the rain yesterday was so intense that it was all over the news this morning It was that much rain that it was newsworthy rain for a country that gets rain 200 days a year Yes and oh my god I'm so scared and excited at the same time to see Guayaquil because Guayaquil was in the news and it was underwater But anyway we can't even think about Guayaquil at the moment because we've got 200 miles no 185 oh there's the police hello Yeah he was so close to us I was like is he crashing into us I mean what happens if the police crashes into you I don't know they give him a fine Yeah we can't even think about Guayaquil at the moment because we don't even know if the roads getting to Guayaquil are going to be are going to be open because the warnings on the news this morning were flooding landslides basically chaos across the roads of the country So yeah Yeah let's see if the roads that we need are actually going to be free Yeah Fingers crossed Fingers crossed Since we've been following this police officer he has overtaken on a double yellow many times and he went in the wrong way Okay let's see what they've got diesel eco pays and super premium Why do they insist on a different name in every country we go to It's four dollars per gallon You think it's per gallon? Yes I hope it's per gallon because otherwise that's really expensive Super premium okay 95 octane as well Hello, good morning 95 Yes Full Hello My German is English Today Guayaquil Yes, Vistrom 1200 1050 1050 1050 Vistrom Super Teneres 1200 Yamaha Cool Rally motocross Motocross, huh? Ah Vili, no XR660 Wow No rapido, no Oh nice Okay, mucho gusto And that was the end of our audio Little did we know that the rain from yesterday had left our GoPro well and truly saturated So it's time for me to step in with a well written voiceover and tell you a few facts about country number 13 on our journey the beautiful country of Ecuador The name Ecuador means Equator The full name Republica del Ecuador literally just means the Republic of the Equator Home to indigenous groups for more than 10,000 years its coastal Valdiva culture is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas Conquered by the Inca in the 15th century and then by the Spanish in the 16th century Ecuador finally achieved independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia from which it emerged as its own sovereign state in 1830 one of 17 mega diverse countries in the world and home to part of the Amazon rainforest Ecuador's new constitution of 2008 was the first in the world to recognize legally the rights of nature This was our first ride in the country and we were already deep in a spectacular jungle landscape We were excited to see what was ahead on the wild roads of this green and incredibly wet country Oh my god look this is probably just happened yesterday and there's a team of people out here literally with shovels Gracias Gracias So we're starting to rain already and we're only like one hour into the ride but yeah, it's time for us to put our rain clothes on As we reach the coastal lowlands the rainforest around us had been replaced by banana plantations Ecuador is the top exporter of bananas worldwide 24% of all exported bananas in 2021 came from Ecuador with a value totaling $3.5 billion That must be a lot of bananas Alamon Alamon, yes yes yes What's up here? I'm a bit naughty because normally I made some very nice sandwiches this morning for our lunch but we just arrived here at this petrol station and they had an offer two americanos and two baguettes for $4.99 US dollar So we were like ok we have that Look at this It's like an omelet sandwich I just took the audio cable out of the GoPro but the end snapped off So I think the end is still inside the medium line So that's not really very good So unfortunately I think we can't really talk to the camera anymore whilst we're going along So sorry about that We stopped on the side of the road because we can see some coconuts behind us I'm gonna go and see if we've got enough cash to get something Hola ¿Cuánto cuesta una? $1.25 $1.25 Gracias I think Lavi's taking a selfie with somebody over there Coconut Mucho gusto Muchas gracias Perfecto, gracias Coconut, goodness Bienvenido a Ecuador mis hermanos motoviajeros Gracias Maximilian So Maximilian just arrived and look what bike he has This is the Suzuki 1050 No way, look at this Wow This is the first time that we have seen even another V-Strom of any kind in South America and this is like exactly our V-Strom After 7 hours on the bike we finally made our rainy approach into Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil So our end of the audio splitter is actually broken and it's stuck inside our GoPro attachment and now we're just gonna try something we're gonna try to superglue the end of these sunglasses on the broken bit If I put a dot of superglue on the end here and then the idea is that I'm gonna glue the end of the sunglasses to the end of the audio splitter The next day Good morning guys So yesterday when we met that V-Strom owner he actually pointed out something about Bumblebee that was really concerning and that is that the disc brake here is completely gone This was the disc brake that we got in Rio So that was a long way away That was like 14,000 miles ago Basically he pointed out to us that there is absolutely nothing left on the disc brake It's completely just metal to metal Possibly we may have damaged the disc but that's something we're gonna have to see today because we're about to take Bumblebee over to a Suzuki garage here in Guaqil and they're gonna have a look at it for us So we've arrived at a Suzuki garage and have a look, this is what the disc brakes look like at the moment Oh yeah No much or no No That's like worse than when we came to Rio There's like metal on metal We're gonna get the disc pad changed now so we're gonna get an oil change so at least we're gonna do something Even less what we had before and it's really hot as well That's a little bit scary So we have to check them more often So we just went off together to go and get some oil on this bike and man this bike is so fast it's like really small but it's a 650 so man we just he just went oh my god so they're looking into it at the moment to see if they've got our model of brake pads because he said it's a very special brake pad for this model so he's gonna see if he has if he can find them Is that the second one? Both hey? Both So after riding around the city for a while not on the big bike but on this little scooter we have found some brake pads and these are Suzuki genuine pads so have a look at the difference wow the new one and the old one that's crazy crazy What is that? New life for bumblebee So the brakes are done we've got new oil going in with a new oil filter and we've also asked about if we can find some new 50-50 tires because our tires are wearing down like super fast look look there's about one mil of tread left here in the centre and look at the side the side still has full tread so it's wearing down so fast and yeah we just thought ok let's get it done now so we are gonna go back off with the scooter and see if we can find some 50-50 tires hopefully under 200 dollars see how we get on check that out our best plate totally bent from all the speed bumps and we're going off to get some tires and I don't think I'm driving you're driving later that same evening good evening guys we are back at the hotel having some noodles in the end we couldn't find a suitable tire we rode around a bit but everything they had locally were basically road tires the 50-50 that we were looking for so for now we decided to keep our current rear tire and try to arrange something for our next stop which is gonna be Bogota, Colombia but at least we managed to get the brake pads done and that was the most important thing and we got an oil change and an oil filter change so that was a pretty good result so the brake pads cost us 90 dollars the oil cost us 50 dollars but then Henry the mechanic was super nice because he only charged us 20 dollars for everything he did and taking us around to find this stuff so you're amazing Henry thank you so much Henry you saved our lives and in terms of our media mod we managed to get the bit out which was stuck in there but it still doesn't work unfortunately so it's completely broken there was like a lot of water coming out there was no jack hole as well and unfortunately he has no no GoPro shop in the whole of Guayaquil but now we checked on Facebook Marketplace and actually there is a guy who is selling one of these and apparently we can pick it up tomorrow he wanted 115 US dollars we could bargain him down to 100 we will pick it up tomorrow on this point we want to thank all our Patreons to help us out with all this equipment replacement because it just ends up and it goes crazy so if any of you want to help us out as well then you can join us on Patreon the link is in the description of the video and that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and we will see you next time