Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Into My Hands
Dec 21, 2005 (8 photos)

... , my gift is an overdue explanation of how I ended up out of the jungle and on the Equatorial Pacific coast in the city of Bahia de Caraquez which I am settling into just fine. In the Peace Corps. it is common to have a ¨honey-moon¨ phase as you enter ...

Email Tell All
Jan 10, 2006

... 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 ...

Happy Birthday Jeff
Aug 22, 2006

... allowed for a quiet return to San Vicente and a relaxing contemplative boat ride across the bay to the lighted skyline of Bahía de Caráquez. It gave me time to really think about this last year; from the beautifully difficult times in the Amazon to the ...

Sick Day
Aug 23, 2006 (40 photos)

... 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 ...

Moment of the Week
Jan 6, 2006

... 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 ...

The People
Sep 11, 2006 (27 photos)

In the states hard workers are commercial fisherman, carpenters, slave laborers... here, hard workers are old men with machetes and Parkinsons disease. We were riding and the man who monkey's around on the ranchero(a covered flat bed truck with wood ...

EcuaChristmas
Dec 26, 2005 (5 photos)

Before I knew it I was sitting in a plastic chair and passing on (not drinking) an alcoholic shot of whiskey every 3 minutes in celebration of the infant-daughters baptism. This was my EcuaChristmas Eve. Talk about feeling far away from home. My ...

bahia and money game
May 13, 2009 (4 photos)

... days ago before finding my way.  From San Vicente, there is a short ferry ride across the bay to Bahia de Caraquez, a modern looking town when seen from a distance, with multistory (not quite skyscraper) businesses and apartment buildings. Upon ...

Ferien am Meer
Jun 27, 2006

... zu reisen, jetzt bin ich mir nicht mehr so sicher. Den ganzen Montag habe ich im Bus verbracht von Quito nach Bahia de Caraquez an der Kueste. Erst abends gegen halb neun kamen wir dort an. Eigentlich wollte ich sofort weiterfahren, beschloss dann aber ...

Going native
Feb 19, 2009

... tool, the machette, the tool of the jungle. Quite a sureal sight it was with 15 gringos walking through the streets of Bahia, early thursday morning, all branishing machettes. The site had been planted 8 years ago and some of the trees are starting to look ...

Bahia de Caraquez, Canoa and St. Vincente
Aug 10, 2008

... talked and laughed for about an hour then the lights on the rest of the island were on again in about 2 hours. Bahia de Caraquez, St. Vincente, and Canoa are really a cluster of islands that are a great vacation. The womens are beautiful, the people ...

Goodbye Bahia and Thanks for all the Scabs!
Mar 30, 2009

... nice field trips during my last few weeks. 30km down the coast from Bahia is the town of San Clemente, a beach town sleepier than Bahia with several small restaurants and a nice piece of beach for fishing. The official reason for the trip was to visit an ...

Camp
Mar 18, 2009 (5 photos)

... 's birthday. This time, rather than smashing the Capitol with a baseball bat, a rather disturbing fashion trend amongst the men of Ecuador was destroyed by the blade of the machete. I've also crafted parade floats out of paper machete, painted faces and ...

Modes of Transportation
Mar 14, 2009 (5 photos)

There are plenty of enjoyable ways to get your self from one place to another down here, most of them involve the back of some random truck. I, like many others, used to laugh in disgust at the ¨white trash¨ riding dirty in the back of some beat up Ford. It ...

Teaching 300 Students and Living with Peacocks
Jun 10, 2008

... to come out on top in the situation that I find myself firmly planted at the moment, here in Bahia. Bahia de Caraquez is Ecuador's self-proclaimed 'Eco-City´.  In this tiny town of dusty meandering roads and not  ...

Bahia
Aug 19, 2008

Last stop on the coast is Bahia, a slightly more up-scale beach destination.

a la costa
Dec 13, 2004 (5 photos)

... like travelling to a different country: huge banana plantations everywhere, houses in wood and thatchered roof, people sleeping in hammocks. Bahia is a very tiny town with a lovely sandy beach on the Pacific ocean and is our starting point for the Rio ...

The coast of Ecuador ... ¡Welcome to paridise!
Sep 25, 2005 (12 photos)

¿Have you ever seen a Corona Beer commercial? Well then, welcome to Canoa, Ecuador. But first, we had to earn our keeps. After few days of volunteering our services with Fundación Planet Drum doing reforestation, trail maintenance and such, we earned a ...

Volunteering...?
Oct 11, 2005

... in Bahia, about an hour's bus and boat ride away from Canoa. Last night was Art Night at Planet Drum here in Bahia, which my Slovenian roommate Stasha refers to as 'a house full of Americans.' (It's just a few reforestation volunteers who invite their ...

¡Viva el Paro!
Oct 11, 2005

Today I went through my first Latin American roadblock. The bus lines, which in Ecuador are like U.S. car companies and airlines combined, are gouging prices with the consent of the government. University students who live near Bahia can no longer afford ...

Oh shit we're already in Bahia!!
Dec 13, 2007

Bahia's The Shit!!

San Vicente, Ecuador
Jul 25, 2008 (3 photos)

San Vicente, Ecuador

Pasties!
Jul 10, 2009

... them with you all, they are like the best thing ever invented and delivered right to where you work!!!. Had a bit of a look through Bahia, its a pretty small beach town on a peninsula. There was an earth quake here about 8-10 years ago and there are still ...

End of an era... off to Santiago.. by bus!?!
Nov 2, 2006

Well. After some visa issues I am moving on to greener pastures and sadly have to leave Bahia. I´ve met some great people, seen fantastic sunsets and will geniuinly miss living two blocks from the pacific ocean! Off to Peru and finally to Santiago as ...

Bahia
Sep 17, 2008

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Entering Ecuador
Sep 26, 2005 (7 photos)

... get to our intended destination. Stephanie Friede, a dear friend from Cornell, was volunteering in a little coastal city named Bahia de Caraquez, so that is where I wanted to be. Feeling a little uninspired, a little disenchanted, I looked forward to ...

Bahia!!!
Nov 17, 2007 (48 photos)

... speaking tourists in that area, vaccinate dogs.. (kind of random but a possible activity), also help with advertising Cerro Seco across Ecuador. Anyways its got everything to keep me busy and happy. My room overlooks the bay, from the hill, I have enough ...