Ibarra, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Heading North!
Jun 10, 2005 (1 photos)

... (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 on an ...

Getting adventurous in Ecuador
Feb 5, 2009 (32 photos)

... 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 call ...

Tabacundo Lindo
Jun 25, 2005 (12 photos)

... 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 ...

Op weg naar Colombia
May 27, 2009

Een nachtje geslapen in Ibarra

In search of furry leaves
Jun 13, 2008 (2 photos)

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 ...

Ibarra - Nce little town
Jul 28, 2007 (22 photos)

Coming...

Birthday Weekend
Jul 18, 2005 (10 photos)

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 me. ...

Culture shock in more ways than one
Sep 25, 2008

... 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 ...

Getting a Ride and a Spare Room!
Jan 5, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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. I ...

The Adventures of the CPWs
Jul 18, 2009 (20 photos)

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 “ ...

Ecuador - My Highlights
Feb 4, 2008

... 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 ...

ibarra, small mountain village
Apr 5, 2007

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 uni.

Bye Colombia, hello Ecuador
Jun 27, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 a ...

Entering Colombia
Oct 12, 2007 (21 photos)

... 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
Feb 8, 2005 (2 photos)

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
Oct 19, 2008

... . 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 ...

Carnival!
Feb 28, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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, which ...

Travelogue Popayan to Otavalo (Ecuador)
Dec 6, 2006

... On to a minibus 'til the the ubiquitous terminal, where there was a bus leaving immediately for  Otavalo, for 2$, it looks like Ecuador maybe as cheap, or cheaper than Colombia!! It made me think a lot of Peru, when an army of sellers got on, and I ...

The City that Ice Cream Built
May 6, 2007

... 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 ...

Finally some hiking
Jan 24, 2005 (5 photos)

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 ...

Tulcan, Ecuador
Jul 12, 2008 (2 photos)

Tulcanm Ecuador

I can't believe we ran over a dog!
Dec 1, 2008 (14 photos)

... night, all the taxi's and buses were gone, so we got a ride on some gangster's roof, then hired a private car to get back to Ibarra. I get back to Ibarra, and Francisco was having an employee meeting, and invited me to dinner with all the employees. A ...

Barre libre
Oct 15, 2004

Yesterday i went to Ibarra with Santiago a guy who i live with, three others went as well, the drive to ibarra is impressive driving along the panamerican highway across mountains the scenery is amazing. we arrived and went to eat fritadas a typical meal ...

Ibarra
Sep 13, 2008 (35 photos)

 dimanche 14 7:30 dans les starting block pour avoir des places pour le trein de la Libertad qui va dīIbarra ā Salinas. rencontre avec Dayla (costa ricaine) Vanesa (espaņole) et Juan Antonio (equatorien) se cultive lā bas la canne ā ...