Ecuador Travel Blogs

... the day walking around the city. I had two good meals and set up a mountain biking tour for tomorrow on Chimborazo, Ecuador´s highest mountain. The tour will take all day, and on Saturday Riobamba has a large market--woohoo souvenir shopping. I´ll go to ...

A travel blog entry from Riobamba by bred
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... was to arrive, perhaps he or she could have worked through those barriers and been the most productive and happy volunteer in Ecuador. I couldn´t be him in the circumstances provided. I did gain a lot from living out in the Amazon jungle where people ...

A travel blog entry from Bahia de Caraquez by jeanja
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(This is an entry taken from my journal entry originally written 9/1 to fill you in on the gap of time that I have been in the jungle.) 9:20 P.M. ¨Great Start¨ Carrying 200 lbs. among a backpack and three duffel bags, walking through the bus ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by jeanja
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... strung and just busting out with thoughts about Banos, they engage us with stories of their experiences.  They're moving to Ecuador because all hell is breaking loose in Canada - no actually according to them it's breaking loose in the USA and since ...

A travel blog entry from Banos by rawhideone
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It all became real, really fast as I saw the scale of FUNEDESIN and my responsibilities in the scheme of all that is going on deep in the Amazonian jungle. From being a good face for many of the tourists who come to Yachana Lodge and the residents in the ...

A travel blog entry from Mondaña by jeanja
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I just think this is a pretty sweet picture of the boyfriend of my Boss who is representing PC-Ecuador on Mt. Everest. Check out the photo! Dear PCVs, I wanted to share with you the amazing news about Edison Oña on Mt.Everest! He made it to 8, ...

A travel blog entry from Mt. Everest by jeanja
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A month and a few weeks in from entering my site and I am still finding myself training to find a piece of home in all that is going on. Vacaita, my dog (I changed her name after two days) was an eye-opener to my community member at first, but now my ...

A travel blog entry from Mondaña by jeanja
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... of Peace Corps Volunteers for the equivalent of our Halloween... except for that festivities run the whole week! That is what awaits fourteen bus-hours away in the culture hub of Ecuador, Cuenca. I have attached some photos for those still interested.

A travel blog entry from Tena by jeanja
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... eaten a meal where I wasn´t still hungry afterwards) and then said goodnight. I woke up early this morning to go to Ingapirca, Ecuador´s most important (and I think largest) Inca ruin. It´s important to note that having such a label lends quite a bit of ...

A travel blog entry from Cuenca by bred
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The Cuenca House, located in the center of the most beautiful city in Ecuador, is a deeply discounted hostel just for Peace Corps Volunteers which provides a home away from home, away from home; it also provides a library of books to take as you please, ...

A travel blog entry from Cuenca by jeanja
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... names like Diamond July Ross Perot Jackson. I am thinking something a little shorter that had some significance about my time here in Ecuador. I will be taking her back with me as is common for PC Volunteers to do at the end of service (I hear it fairly ...

A travel blog entry from Tena by jeanja
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... bad Spanish. New Years was fine. Hung out here and stomped around in the streets with Bahianites like they do everywhere else in Ecuador. Good times the next day. Hung out on the beach, worked on my tan (which I didn´t have one), and then danced to ...

A travel blog entry from Bahia de Caraquez by jeanja
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So I realized my camera wasn´t broken after all, 2 weeks after a bottle of liquid shattered in the bag in which it was in... Since, I have gone camera crazy! Enjoy a the photos of my new site. Jeff

A travel blog entry from Around Bahia by jeanja
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... told them it was my cumpleaños before I could bite my tongue; off we went to happy hour for a couple hours of conversation at Ecuador's famous Bamboo Bar with an older couple from Italy, a brother and sister from France, a lady from Germany, and my amigos ...

A travel blog entry from Bahía de Caráquez by jeanja
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First day on the Galapagos.  I get this huge rush as I see the islands from the plane...and then after multiple transfers to get to the boat, I meet my boat mates for the week...I like them all...esp my roommate...this is a varied group, in age and ...

A travel blog entry from Puerto Ayora by rawhideone
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So here I am in Quito, Ecuador after an extremely long >24 hours of travel. I was scheduled for a 2.5 hour layover in Miami, but our 5:02 PM departure time came and went, without much of an explanation offered. Finally the news trickled through the ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by bred
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Saturday, March 29 It's morning and I'm lounging in a hammock on the upper floor of the hostel, overlooking the canyon that runs through Chugchilan.  Just about every part of my body is a bit sore, especially my legs... and my knees are screaming ...

A travel blog entry from Quilotoa by rawhideone
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Dinner was nice. Ate with an embassy family, Michael St. Clair´s family. Michael was the chef and they didn´t have any servants which is also out of the norm for an embassy family... They lived in an Austrian Mansion built maybe 50 years ago. Probably ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by jeanja
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Yesterday we, yes about 2000 people and myself, danced through the streets of Cayambe. I still don{t really understand exactly their religious reasoning behind it all (they say it is for San Pedro) but other reasons may consist of getting really drunk, ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by jeanja
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... of interest.  I also spend some time with a woman doing her graduate work with monkeys in the rainforest in Ecuador.  She´s studying primate interaction and conservation...Ecuador has a lot of work yet to do in conserving the environment.  ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by rawhideone
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This morning the U.S. Ambassador swore-in us Peace Corps. Volunteers at her residence... It is quite the estate our government has overlooking Volcanoes, sitting on the edge of a 300 foot cliff.

A travel blog entry from Quito - Ambassador's Residence by jeanja
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... in a restaurant in Cuenca, I was happy to get on a bus for a five-hour ride to Loja. It´s in the far south of Ecuador, and I´m taking an eight-hour bus ride south of the border to Piura, Peru. I have a flight to Lima on the morning of Friday, July 28th. ...

A travel blog entry from Loja by bred
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... for much of my time but also because my body decided to take on it's first legitimate non-food-poisoning sickness here in Ecuador, known where English is primarily read as the common-cold. Early in the morning I didn't think much of the head-ache and ...

A travel blog entry from Bahía de Caráquez by jeanja
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Not wanting to spend hours in an internet cafe, sadly im gonna keep this one short and sum up our time in Ecuador in one post. It started with an excellent long weekend spent with Rowena in the market town of Otavalo: * Walking around a beautiful ...

A travel blog entry from Otavalo by dospollos
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... . I just received it. Yesterday we went off to an Island which has been voted as having the most beautiful beach in Ecuador by Peace Corps Volunteers... We played a thrilling game of four-on-four American rules football. We lost 2 to 1. I feel ...

A travel blog entry from Monpiche - North Coast by jeanja
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Peace Corps Goal #2:

A travel blog entry from Around Ecuador by jeanja
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... the evening. ¿Sounds delicous right? It is actually pretty good, especially over conversation about how the American Dollar (that Ecuador starting using about four years ago) made the livelihood of just about all Ecuadorians much harder and is making many ...

A travel blog entry from Bahia de Caraquez by jeanja
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Three more quick questions, 1) how much money are you making currently, 2) what are you going to do when you come back 3) were you an accounting major? Thanks! 1) As a volunteer I make enough money to pay for everything I need. Full coverage ...

A travel blog entry from Bahia by jeanja
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... the Festivities for St. Pedro yesterday which was at the park of Cayambe. Lots of very rich culture, food, dancing, and pride Ecuador has and I am sooo excited to keep on learning, immersing, and growing myself along with those who are involved with my ...

A travel blog entry from Quito by jeanja
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... counted 6 helicopters, 3 jets, a 1940's car, a division of goosestepping soldiers and some horses. I wouldn't put money on Ecuador in a scrap with Peru. In my first month here, it's been interesting to meet so many people from different countries and ...

A travel blog entry from Baños by helene
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