El Monasterio de Cusin
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Back to the Highlands
Into the canoe at 7:30 AM to cross the lake and begin to retrace our process from just a few days ago: hike to the Napo, speedboat to Coca and plane to Quito. There's some grumbling because once again just snacks instead of a real lunch. Our plane is delayed an hour, so Gonzalo agrees to buy us something at a tiny cafe outside the terminal (I use …
To Market, to Market...
We find out that we're actually staying in the little town of San Pablo del Lago near the lake of the same name. There are many San Pablo's in Ecuador and their names are differentiated in some way. Apparently, all the cities have a full religious name, like San Francisco de Quito.
After breakfast in the main building , we board our bus …
A few nights in Gringoland, Ecuador
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Since we hadn't had an internet connection for 4 days we were just trusting the "South America on a Budget" guidebook. It delivered. The place was an old mansion in the historic part of town and while it had paper thin walls, it had nice open spaces and a killer Italian restaurant attached to it where we ate frequently.
Cuenca was nice - very pretty. A city of 300k at 8,200', it is semi-famous as the place where 3,000 gringo's have chosen ...
Le retour dans l'altitude
... autres. Aussi malheureusement on a besoin de trouver une nouvelle camera car la nôtre nous a laissé tomber, et a prix avec elle notre budget, mais bon on travaille dur pour maintenir les finance en ordre et pas rentre en France pour aller faire la manche ! Comme ce dit un malheur viens jamais seule (peut-être ce le bonheur que viens jamais seule ) en tout cas un bonheur on a retrouvé le couple d’Argentin Lala et Nico des artisans avec les quelle on ...
Ecuador: 2 - Volcano hopping down the Andes
... persuaded. We walked from the carpark to the snow line at 5100m. A short climb, but at that height it was increasingly difficult to walk and we both started to feel a bit light-headed, having to pause every 5-10 steps to catch our breath. The views from the top were worth the struggle and the way down was much easier, speeding down the side of the volcano on mountain bikes.
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