Montaņita, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Surfing and birds in Montaņita and Puerto Lopez
Aug 12, 2006 (12 photos)

... fishing towns. Unfortunately there was a thick blanket of clouds over the sky in the southern beaches of Ecuador this time of year. We arrived in Montaņita later that morning. Hippies in Montaņita Just as we had done before in Atacames, Brett and I ...

Surf Haven
Jan 14, 2007 (6 photos)

Joined Chileans and a new found Argentinian to the biggest hippie haven I have ever seen. Good food, good people and lots and lots of Bongos!

Zurueck in Montaņita
Jun 30, 2006 (9 photos)

... Ort tummeln sich von Kuenstlern, ueber Hippies bis hin zu den einheimischen und auslaendischen Touristen alle Arten von Menschen und nicht wenige verliern sich dort. Und Surfer gibt es natuerlich eine ganze Menge, da Montaņita der Surfspot in Ecuador ist.

Spanish by the sea
May 17, 2009

We took a night bus from Mancora straight to Guayquil and from there a direct bus to Montanita along the Ecuador Coast and the closest we will be getting to the Galapagos in this trip. The town itself is pretty much relaxed and laid back, very small with a ...

Montaņita
Mar 14, 2008 (10 photos)

... Under the circumstances, this was probably the best possible place we could have gone to recuperate (minus home, which clearly wasnīt a possibility.) Montanita was a really cute town and had a nice big beach so it was a great spot for us to just chill and ...

Montanita
May 1, 2008 (5 photos)

... of fun, sun and surf and with the weekend crowd getting bigger at Montanita, we decided that it was time to say farewell to Montanita and Ecuador, to start the trek to Peru. The 5am bus drove past streams of party people still yet to make it home and by ...

Spektakulaere Befreiungsaktionen
Oct 11, 2006 (2 photos)

Ab Dienstag hatten wir unsere Ruhe wieder, aber auch leider gleichzeitig mein letzter Tag. Ich hatte geplant am naechsten Tag um 5 Uhr morgens den Bus nach Guayaquil zu nehmen, um dann von dort in eine kleine Stadt im Dschungel zu fahren. Den letzten ...

Drinking, fightin & smokin
Oct 29, 2009 (14 photos)

... on our travels, so we were expecting lots from this little hippy beach town, and it didnīt disappoint. Montanita being only 4 hours from the largest city in Ecuador (Guayaquil) it gets really packed out on the weekends. By chance, the weekend we arrived the ...

Montanita, Ecuador
Oct 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... ocean, I began to long for white sands and blue water...and found just what I was looking for in the little surf town of Montanita, Ecuador. A 10 hour bus ride outside of Quito, this was a great spot to kick back and relax after a few weeks of long hours ...

Seeing in 2009, Montanita style!
Jan 2, 2009 (41 photos)

... Montanita at around 11, after having had to wait for a bus for the first time since we have been in Ecuador! We didnīt really know what to expect with Montanita and kind of thought it was going to be a Magaluf style place because of the things we had heard, ...

pictures
Dec 6, 2009

follow link for all pictures through Montaņita... http://picasaweb.google.com/Carlyfedor/AlbumSinTitulo#

Montanita, Ecuador
May 29, 2007 (4 photos)

... a nice hotel room with a tv for a few nights.  We then headed up the coast to a cool little surfer town called Montanita.  When we arrived we found a hostel and then just wandered around town and went for a few drinks.  Every bar has happy ...

Allein unter Argentiniern
Jul 3, 2006 (8 photos)

... als ich gerade auf dem Weg zum Fruehstuecken war. Der Samstag war wieder ein ziemlich ruhiger Tag, ein typischer Tag in Montaņita. Eigentlich hatte ich ueberlegt schon an diesem Abend den Nachtbus nach Quito zu nehmen, um mich am Sonntag auf mein Praktikum ...

Ecuadorīs Coast - Montanita
Jul 7, 2008 (3 photos)

03/07/08 - 07/07/08 Got to Montanita around lunch time and headed out of the town to the 2nd best hostel in S.America rated by The Guardian!! Absolute pit! We went there as Tom (number 2) was meeting some people who he travelled with 3 months ago, ...

montaņita, aquí nos quedamos!
Mar 22, 2007 (5 photos)

... pagando $4 por persona. Después de ese triste episodio, llegamos a Santa Elena y allí cogimos inmediatamente otro bus para Montaņita que nos costó sólo $1. Llegamos a Montaņita y por primera vez vimos artesanos en las calles. Por todos lados había mesas y ...

Back home in Montaņita und Wale in Puerto Lopez
Aug 15, 2006 (3 photos)

... bekommen, denn am Abend war das gesamte Dorf mal wieder voll. Vier Tage lang hatte ich mal wieder typisches Montaņita-Leben, tagsueber rumgammeln, rumlaufen und bloss nichts Produktives machen und abends ein bisschen oder auch ein bisschen mehr Party ...

Bad weather but great fun
Oct 15, 2009 (18 photos)

... seats, all our hand luggage is checked, weīre frisked and then itīs back onto the bus again.  We arrived into Montanita and found ourselves a hostal and promptly fell asleep for a few hours.  Travelling through the night really takes it out of you ...

Montanita
Dec 27, 2008 (1 photos)

... They were extremely nice to me.  They even bought me Christmas gifts and gave them to me during our Christmas eve dinner. Montanita is a laid back surf town.  There are a lot of young people with dreads.  Our hostal was more like a hotel ...

More whales and surfing
Sep 17, 2009

... and a communal area with sofas and hammocks made it much easier for people to get chatting. 16th September 2009 5s Hostal, Montanita, Ecuador (10 usd) Cool Puerto lopez – Montanita (40 kms) Today we said bye bye to Puerto lopez and toddled down the ...

Off to Montanita
May 2, 2009 (89 photos)

... 's history as well. Then I got in touch with some of the CSers which are, in fact, heading out to Montanita, one of the most famous beaches in Ecuador.  So that's where I'm headed too in just a bit...  I'm going to take a shower and heading ...

Keine Sonne, aber dafuer Strand und Meer
Oct 9, 2006 (14 photos)

... einer Bar gemuetlich gemacht hatten. Gluecklicherweise hatten die bereits ein Zimmer im Tiki Limbo, einem der gemuetlichsten Hostals in Montaņita, fuer mich reserviert und so konnte ich bei Daniela ins Zimmer ziehen. Da an einem Dienstag Abend nun wirklich ...

Surf's Up
Jun 24, 2008 (1 photos)

Montaņita is one of those places people find and never leave. It is in many ways similar to Vang Vieng, Laos (see my SE Asia blog) with the big difference of being located on a beach instead of a river. I may claim to be most interested in getting away ...

Pas de foie gras mais playa y sol pour Noel!
Dec 24, 2009 (6 photos)

... quelques jours ici.. Des photos et plus de nouvelles asap. Nous venons d' arriver.... gros bisous et Joyeux Noel! Well arrived in Montanita - Ecuador after 29h of bus.... Sun, beach, hotel with a hammock on the terrasse - view on the sea...here is the ...

Montanita und was man so an Regentagen machen kann
Oct 27, 2006 (6 photos)

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have to get back to quito :(
May 29, 2009 (6 photos)

... out at night, so i failed to capture this and the birds.  so, i donīt know what is up with the birds in montaņita but they are all white, little, and like to sleep, perfectly spaced apart, on the power lines.  seriously, you could measure it, and ...

Still going
Dec 7, 2007 (4 photos)

Ok, still alive and still going. Updates have been pretty slack, pretty much due to all time being swallowed up by surfing or recovering from surfing. Heading inland in the next week or so to spend christmas in quito (i think) so, away from the coast ...

Montinita - The beach party place
Jul 9, 2008 (33 photos)

... dutch girl mates arrived the next day aswell.. so it was straight into fun with them and others at our hostal. The atmosphere in Montanita is really friendly, and laid back and all are up for a laugh. I hadnt been body boarding for over 10 years and now i ...

So this is where all the hippies have gone
Oct 12, 2006 (7 photos)

... there is only so much Bob Marley we could take. The DJ even played a techno version of Hotel Caliofornia for the hippies. Montanita certainly was a strange place and after three days we felt that it was time to move on to somewhere a little more normal ...

Digging Through God's Treasure Chest
Oct 23, 2009 (3 photos)

... image of a South American pueblo. The scene manifests its importance when considering where we are...Montanita.. our last stop on the long bus ride through Ecuador. Time to change our Dollars into Soles, pack up our bags and make our ...

Those pictures really tied the blog together
Apr 21, 2009

and this asshole went ahead and lost them. Fuckin amature So i lost my camera on a bus, i dont even think it was stolen, i think it jsut fell outa my bag, i have no one to blame but god or the god of digital cameras and 2gb memory cards, if there is a ...