Las Tunas
Travel Blogs from Las Tunas, Ecuador
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Day for relaxation along the beach
... from desert to lush jungle within 5 miles of eachother. Its amazing the biodiversity and climate diversity you find here in Ecuador - and all the variations of birds and wildlife that go along with them... It was pretty much a rainy cloudy kind of ...
Vamos A La Playa! (Let´s Go to the Beach!)
... our escape from Lopez for the community of Las Tunas, a short 30 min. ride southbound along the coast. We arrived in Las Tunas and were quite excited about our new surroundings. Our gorgeous guest house was situated a mere 200m from a pristine ...
Sun, sea, surfing, and cowboys
Being back on the coast feels good! The sun is shining and the water is green and warm like a bath. We met up with Will and Tamsin again in Ayampe, just north of the tourist mecca and therefore avoided Montañita. There we got a little surf on, made a ...
The rain is back!
We have had a decent amount of rain since January. A small voice in my brain says in a hopefull small voice: Could it be that the rains are back? Back to normal I mean. What if it was to rain seasonally like it use to? ...
Mi kids are grown now...
... I just can´t believe how beautiful and nice and fun they are! They are still spending their vacations from highschool and university here in Las Tunas. I know soon they will be out to see the world. I am so happy for them. I am so ...
Ayampe = Chill
3/8/10 Well instead of Manta/San Mateo, our destination wound up being Ayampe. As soon as we boarded the bus and left Quito I passed out hard; in fact, Jon couldn't even wake me up for the complimentary snack and drink! Slept almost the whole ...
Mango season
It is mango season in Ecuador. At least 11 different varieties, from the subtropics to the tropics. It was not until I visited Egypt that I learn how to make a proper mango shake. Now I am experimenting with varieties, degrees of ripeness and fruit ...
the enemy of watermelon
The rainy season is beginning to wind down. Of 20 watermelon plants only 9 are surviving. First I was blaming my failure on the ants. With a little observation I discovered the culprit! Big green iguanas. They just love the buds of anything. ...
"I will be late for class..."
... , they wanted to visit, the rest of us wanted a fun desination. Turns out Montanita is famous of the best surf in Ecuador, and for this reason there are TONS of tourists. Without the surf, this town would be just another impoverished village, but there is ...
Montañita....
Montañita… hmm…was sölli dadäzuä sägä… Ich versuechs mal z beschriibä… Dorf/Sprach: Montañita isch äs chliises Surferdörfli, wo extrem touristisch isch, alli Englisch redet und nur ca 200 Iiheimischi da wohned, wo ...
Montañita Fortsetzig...
Klima: da in Montañita existiered nur zwei Jahresziite... Winter und Summer... und jetzt isch Winter... no bis im Dezember... sprich: ab dänn hettets jedetag schön Wätter und warm... zur Ziit schiffets wieder eimal mee... fäng nüüt mee ...
Blue Footed Boobies & Frigat Birds
An early start this morning. During the night we had travelled to North Seymour. There were 3 Galapagos Sharks swarming around the boat. They were probably 2-3 metres long. A short trip on the boat got us on land. To be met by some Galapagos sea lions ...
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