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Ibarra Slideshow
Top Hotels in Ibarra
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Hosteria Chorlavi Ibarra
15 reviews -
Hosteria San Luis Ibarra
3 reviews -
Hotel Ajavi Ibarra
1 review
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Hotel Montecarlo Ibarra
21 reviews
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Imperio Del Sol Hotel Ibarra
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Hosteria Natabuela Ibarra
3 reviews
Ibarra
Travel Blogs from Ibarra, Ecuador
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Heading North!
This is a top pick! ... blackcurrant (or mora!) flavour! After unsuccessfully trying to buy some shower gel and encountering numerous blank faces (not v common in Ecuador!), we headed out for a Mexican and had an early night not like the blokes in the room next door...definitely ...
Getting adventurous in Ecuador
... conversations with Sonia who runs the station. It was a wonderful experience. Our final stop in Ecuador was Ibarra, a colonial town to the north with beautiful churches and view of the hills (if you can ...
Tabacundo Lindo
... who send money back to their families in Ecuador. In the South of Ecuador, most families have members in the United States. Ecuador receives a sizable chunk of its gross national income from those who work abroad and send money home. I could go on and ...
In search of furry leaves
After three days in the big city, I as ready to find some place a bit more remote. An easy four hour bus ride later, I was in El Angel. I certainly succeeded on the remote front, as I apeard to be the only tourist in town. I heard there was one other ...
Welcome to Ibarra, Home of Really Good..Shawarmas?
... just not as good. So, if you ever find yourself in Ibarra, look for the shawarma place around the corner from Hotel Ecuador. You won´t regret your visit. And yes, I really am dedicating this entire Ibarra blog entry to raving about shawarmas. ...
Birthday Weekend
July 15-18 Well, everything has been going great. The training sessions have been very long and informative. I can't believe that I have stayed awake for all of these long sessions. I think that it is because this stuff is actually interesting to ...
Getting a Ride and a Spare Room!
... to eat traditional potato soup to boot! After a bus failed to arrive at Ibarra's bus station, I was rescued by some locals & got a lift to get another bus for the border. ...
DREAM DESTINATION
... ; We were soon back on horseback and venturing out to the condor sanctuary. There is a massive project throughout Ecuador to bring the condors back to the Andes. There are about 75 condors in Ecuador and we saw three swooping over ...
Culture shock in more ways than one
... sized us up for our real intentions for visiting Columbia, they seemed to greet us back with open arms. I felt a familiarity with Ecuador instantly. One of the first locals to greet us was an elderly man. His wife in tow, was somewhat nervous. He ...
Carnaval time in Ibarra
... . We got to experience carnaval Ecuadorian-style in Ibarra, the capital of Imababura province, about 45 minutes north of Otavalo. Ibarra is technically Ecuador's youngest city, as it was founded twice - first in 1606, and then again in 1872, after a ...
The Adventures of the CPWs
Otavalo, Ibarra, Cotacachi, Laguna Quicocha (Northern Ecuador) This weekend, I was "interpreter" and Ania was “spatially and directionally adept person who can point us in the right direction.” However, we both played the role of ...
ibarra, small mountain village
me gabo and his girlfriend went to ibarra, a small mountain town in ecuador. there was not much to do there, we smoked naguilla and drank some beers and just chilled with one of gabos friends from the ...
Bye Colombia, hello Ecuador
... compared to 3-5 dollars on Colombian roads. I guess we paid for all that police and military presence. We made our way to Ibarra which is a fairly large city with wide organized streets and on the edge of town on the slopes of volcano Imbabura we found ...
Ecuador - My Highlights
... way to experience the central highlands of Ecuador is to go on your own trip to El Altar arguably (when visible) one of Ecuador's most beautiful mountains. Jumping off point is in Riobamaba which most people flock to for a ride by train to the Nariz del ...
Entering Colombia
... weather got ugly, which is perfectly normal: rainy season. We took a taxi directly to the border, got stamped out of Ecuador, crossed the bridge on foot, and started queuing for our Colombian stamp. A Colombian approached us, introduced himself as a ...
Country Wide Balloon Fight
Hello everyone! Carnival season has hit Ecuador and luckily today is the last day. The tradition here for Carnival involves soaking everyone with water balloons, buckets of water and hoses. Everyone is a fair target - I saw a nun get hit in Cuenca - ...
Returning to open arms
... . So here`s why, more or less....if I can get it even remotely into words: We crossed the border back into Ecuador and immediately there were smiles and holas and conversations started by interested taxi drivers. We walked the streets of Ibarra to find ...
Cycling days 139-142: Pasto to Ibara, Ecuador
... sour cream and veggies for $4.50! Although we had a great time in beautiful Colombia, we are excited about being back in Ecuador. We spent 3 weeks mountaineering and sightseeing in this country in 2009, so it’ll be interesting to see the country as ...
Carnival!
... is where he learnt english before being deported. Plenty of beautiful Churches and Plazas to view and I really enjoyed walking around Ibarra taking in the sites and watching the people. Even had some Spanish tourists stop and ask me for directions, ...
Into Ecuador
... definitely recommend it. Border formalities were pretty easy and not long after we were on our way south to a town called Ibarra in Ecuador. The US Dollar is the national currency here which is pretty strange - their own currency collapsed in 2001 and ...
Travelogue Popayan to Otavalo (Ecuador)
... the dollar, only to find out that the guy on the Ecuatorian side was changing them at 2310 Agh!!!!!!!!!!! Still at last I was in Ecuador, land of the equator and the dollar, the mostly fake dollar I would say, looking at some of them. Kind of ...
Finally some hiking
After a week of the Quito chaos and air quality (so many diesel buses at 10,000 feet makes the air a little thick), I was ready to head for the hills. I suppose Quito is in the hills already. I was ready to head for the hills without 100,000 buses. So ...
The City that Ice Cream Built
... better give me a waffle cone, or at the very least a sugar cone, and that's pushing it. This anti-climatic finish was Ibarra ice cream's ultimate downfall and I would not even consider handing it the illustrious title of "best ice cream in the world". I ...
Leaving Colombia - Ecuadorian immigration hell
... for turning visitors hostile before they’ve even had their passports stamped. All whilst surrounded by 'Welcome to Ecuador’ posters. No apologies…no explanations other than that it was the holiday period (like it had taken them by ...
Ibarra
dimanche 14 7:30 dans les starting block pour avoir des places pour le trein de la Libertad qui va d´Ibarra à Salinas. rencontre avec Dayla (costa ricaine) Vanesa (españole) et Juan Antonio (equatorien) se cultive là bas la canne à ...
Off The Beaten Track
... eat. We eat in the home of one family, but there is no guinea pig, they are saved for festivals. We leave Ecuador, it is a lovely country, the people are friendly, the cities have some beautiful buildings and the Andes Mountains mean that the scenery ...
DLM!! Nothing to do!!
After Otavalo, we moved to Ibarra the Capital city of the region. Conclusion: there is nothing to do except a big chinese restaurant where you can feel your stomach. Après Otavalo, nous sommes allés à Ibarra, et ba y a rien à foutre!!!!!!!!!! ...
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