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Esmeraldas
Travel Blogs from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
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Crossing the Darien Gap
This is a top pick! ... we said before, patience is a virtue. By 5 pm we were promised that all would be completed by 8:30 the next morning! Esmeraldas has the reputation of being the most dangerous city in Ecuador - everyone from the hotel manager to the taxi driver, and ...
La Gripe and La Costa: The Struggle
La Gripe means "flu" and La Costa means “the Coast.” I don't think “flu” and “Coast” make a good pair, but sometimes bad pairs happen. It starts off with a tickle in the throat, and an occasional dry cough; it ...
First impressions of Wimbi
... ? I guess I'll start at the beginning... We spent three and a half hours standing up on an overcrowded and overheated bus out of Esmeraldas, an hour waiting by the roadside, another hour on an open-sided wooden van, then we got out and crossed over the ...
Visita agli Epera...
Oggi ci spostiamo ancora a Nord ed entriamo nella regione verde dell'Ecuador: Esmeralda... drante il tragitto passiamo nella foresta pluviale e vediamo la foresta nebulare... che spettacolo! A Borbon prendiamo una barca e in condizioni di fortuna ...
Roughing It at the Beach
... and Kez unless I go to Australia or they come to the U.S. (guys?!) so it was kind of sad to say goodbye! I made it to Esmeraldas literally with a minute to spare. The bus pulled in and I got off and climbed on the bus in the next spot over to Quito and ...
The River
It would be impossible to describe Wimbi without dedicating an entire section to the river. It is the absolute life and soul of the community, its presence is felt at every moment, I would fall asleep to the sound of it rushing over the rocks below my ...
10 Things I Learned in the Jungle
1) Oranges are green 2) Pineapples grow on the ground! 3)Sloths and armadillos are, in fact, edible 4) People really are capable of doing nothing at all for days, months, years on end. NOTHING AT ALL. 5) If there is something to do, just get a child ...
How the Other Half Live
... the day, people swinging in their hammocks and traders riding rickshaws piled high with exotic fruits and coconuts, the sound of salsa. Esmeraldas is Ecuador´s black capital, the glaring remains of the slave trade, so the people and customs here are very ...
Mystery of the Week nº 64:
The Shop in the Middle of the Jungle After hours of driving through lush green peaks, creeper-filled canyons, banana groves and tropical vegetation, we approach a tiny village consisting of about three buildings. One of them was a shop. What does it ...
Using our Swim Suits at Last
... a Korean made Musso double cab pick up, while Samuel enjoyed the privilege of the front seat next to Jose. Northern Ecuador is beautiful with lush green vegetation: banana plantations, almond orchards, palmitos-from which palm heart is harvested--, rubber ...
Mystery of the Week #89:
Q: Why are forests of palm trees ugly? A: Because the trees are African Palm, grown as part of the new trend for so-called "Biofuels". In order to cultivate this allegedly "environmentally-friendly" alternative fuel, vast areas of virgen rainforest ...
Al final de la ruta del Pacifico
... en armoede alweer vlak bij elkaar. De komende dagen verblijf ik in Sua, een klein vissersdorp naast Atacames en Esmeraldas, alwaar rijke Ecuadorianos zich komen dichtvreten en - zuipen en zich op zee laten voorttrekken op bananen die bijzonder ...
Beach weekend
... the road has to wind its way down from the heights of the Andes, through the cloud forest, and down into the lowland Esmeraldas province. Atacames was not a particularly pleasant place. It's famous as a party beach, and well, yes, the beach was ...
Heaven becomes Hell
Part of my job here is to investigate all the possible activities that the tourists will be able to participate in when they finally arrive in Wimbi. There is a community about 10km from Wimbi called Playa de Oro, which has been welcoming tourists ...
Back in Paradise
All of the boys of the village had been competing for several days to see who would be the lucky ones who got to row us in the canoa some three hours upriver to the beautiful, secluded, romantic waterfall known simply as "El Salto". I had decided that I ...
Meine erste Currywurst in Suedamerika
Den Dienstag habe ich mal wieder im Bus verbracht auf dem Weg nach Atacames, dem Urlaubsmekka der Ecuadorianer, vor allem der Familien aus Quito. Atacames ist der naechste Strand von Quito aus, mit dem Auto ungefaehr fuenf Stunden. Zur Zeit ist ...
The warmth of south-american families
... park together. So in September she left back home, and now coincidentally she and her husband were in Ecuador to visit family. So I headed to Esmeraldas, a coastal city, with the nightbus. We ended up spending the day on the beach in Atacama. ...
never worked so hard
... Ocean. Last Tuesday, I traveled with my co-worker from Santo Domingo. On Weds, we went to Quinindè and Esmeraldas. Finally on Thursday we went to Atacames. We made a diagonal line from Quito northwest to the coast. ...
A Thousand Words
I still don't know how best to describe my life in the jungle. So in the absence of a thousand words, here's some photos... (Please view as a Photo Album, as for some reason the Slideshow does not show text. ...
A whole new world
... it feels like longer. The foundation works with local communities living in the coastal rainforests and mountain Cloud Forests of Esmeraldas - which apparently form one of the most ecologically diverse regions on the planet - the Chocó - which originally ...
Rio Verde
Took a short walk into the town centre to see the market this morning. There are actually three different markets in the town as well as the main market place in the building. The markets consist of an animal market, there they sell all types of ...
Esmereldas
A very quiet night but we were woken to loud music at 6.30, do not know why they played it so loud. As a result we set off to get to Esmereldas quite early and arrived about 8.30. We could drive straight to the port and after a bit of messing ...
Canine Delicacy
... wind sweeping the sand into those inticate swirl designs. I exagerate, it really wasn´t bad except for the fact that the sand in Esmeraldas is so soft and finely ground, that it sticks to everything like glue. Still trying to shake the sand out of my ...
VIVE ECUADOR!!!!!
... get me to the beach quicker. Which is where I´ve actually been spending my last few days. A little background information on Esmeraldas, the Emerald City...follow the yellow brick road...for those who havn´t read the tour books: it´s actually the ...
GOOOOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... way they gush and chatter on and grab my face to see how much I look like my mother. This is actually pretty typical in Esmeraldas. My mother was a bit of a legend in that she was beautiful, vibrant, and the best dancer in the town. Jorge grew up with ...
Ellie in Ecuador
... city a little. Huge, crowded and I could actually hear J-Lo and salsa blaring from who knows where. I was greeted in Esmeraldas with friendly and generous people who were determined to talk to me though they knew I didn't understand a word and Dana ...
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