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Amazon rainforest
Waking in Coca instead of the amazon jungle....and at 7.20am by Nadia instead of 9am by alarm clock...we were off to the jungle! We had until 8am to get dressed, have breakfast, get packed and downstairs ready to leave! The guides from Sami Lodge, the place where we would be staying, were there to walk us to the dock to get the canoe down river. It was a much larger canoe than I imagined, sat 32 people, had a canopy and two outboard ...
Teaching English/A Little About the Area
... there's the Saturday ONLY market, when many of the streets in downtown Otavalo turn into that famous, very large outdoor mercado.
While typing part of this blog yesterday, September 30th, Colombia had a 7.3 earthquake that made the news. Well...I felt it here. Fred, Ben, Sheila and Catarina were all outside while I was inside wondering why my desk was shaking, and it shook for awhile. Actually, this is the second tremor in my life that I felt. Last ...
Onwards and upwards to Otavalo
... their jumpers / ponchos / rugs etc into giant bags (the size of 2 fat men) and amazingly one native man then hoists this onto his back and secures it to his head with a leather strap (John christened him the "man-mule").
We purchased some basic supplies and retired back to the hostal where the electricity was out in 80% of the building and the WiFi was also out. Welcome to South America!
Otavalo: Population: ~60.5K , Altitude 2,530 meters.
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Cautious Quito
... in the wrong way! We dejectedly turn our bikes around and cycle back to meet the rest of the group waiting for us at the junction at which we turned! Finally we make it to our finishing line - 4 hours and 50km later! We pack the bikes back onto the roof of the mini vans, have a few congratulatory photos and load ourselves back up for the return journey to Quito.
Along the way our tour guide starts telling us about the famous meal of roast guinea pig the Ecuadorians and Peruvians eat ...
La mitad del mundo !
... it for 2 nights – done, and no time lost with that !
After a shower took some more buses to “La mitad del mundo” – the middle of the world, where the Equator is – first to the official point, which is some 200 metres away from the real punto zero, then to the real point, where there is a nice and funny museum where you can make some experiments such as the water flushing clock-wise in the South of the Equator and anti-clock-wise in ...
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