Montanita
Travel Blogs from Montanita, Ecuador
Surfer time!
... with my payments…that is when they work……. Anyway, we finally got out of Guyaquil, headed for the beach at Montanita, about 4.5 hours away by public bus. The bus, once we found it at the very massive Guayaquil terminal, was hot ...
Surfing and birds in Montaņita and Puerto Lopez
... . We shared various views on philosophy and social justice. I mentioned the Colombia incident and how I had met some people in Ecuador who called Colombians their brothers, and other Ecuadorians who blamed all that is bad in the world on Colombians. ...
Monanita - couldn't wait to leave!!!!
... beautiful and has an erupting volcano.... Costs Twin room shared bathroom - a ridiculous Ģ19 a night Bus from Guayaquil to Montanita- Ģ4 each Cost of a large beer - Ģ1.20 a hole in the wall food place serving chicken,rice and ...
Surf Haven
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 ...
Loans for Gold and Fierce Competition
Check out my latest blog posting for Kiva! http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2010/08/24/loans-for-gold-and-fierce-competition/ As a sidenote, my hard drive crashed about 2 weeks ago so Iīve been a bit disconnected and thus remiss in posting ...
Zurueck in Montaņita
... Auto zu reisen ist schon entspannter als mit dem Bus. Wir haben viele Pausen gemacht und die Gegend angesehen. Die Kueste von Ecuador ist superschoen und man kommt durch so viele verschiedene Gegenden. In einer Gegend ist es total trocken und kahl, doch ...
Montanita- Whale watching???
Montanita was our first and main stop in Ecuador. It is rumoured to have the country's best surf and Will and I spent many hours in the waves playing (I thought I was going to drown at one point!). We had a few nights out here with our friends from ...
Spanish by the sea
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 ...
Montaņita
... 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 ...
Montanita
... 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
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
... 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 ...
Montanita, Ecuador
... 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 ...
Seeing in 2009, Montanita style!
... in 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 ...
pictures
follow link for all pictures through Montaņita... http://picasaweb.google.com/Carlyfedor/AlbumSinTitulo# ...
Montanita, Ecuador
... have 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 ...
Montanita - Back on the Coast!
... of us ticketless people and putting us in a big tourist van (for $3 more than the bus!). We arrived in Montanita three hours later only to realise that the booked up bus was due to the Independence Day long weekend....any every ...
Coastal Ecuador
According to Lonely Planet, or Lying Planet as we've come to know it, Montanita is blessed with Ecuador's best surf. Unfortunately whilst we were there this was not the case. All in all though it was nice to spend 5 days doing pretty much nothing. The ...
montanita
BIG party night tears with goodbyes to friends pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/Carlyfedor/EcuadorMontanita03# ...
Allein unter Argentiniern
Mein Wiedersehen mit diesem Ort hat mich etwas aus den Socken gehauen. Es war schon wahnsinn, alles wiederzusehen und die ganzen Erinnerungen, die mir wieder durch den Kopf geschossen sind. Es hat sich einiges veraendert, vor allem der Strand. Wo ich ...
Ecuadorīs Coast - Montanita
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!
Despues de haber pasado un día y una noche en Guayaquil decidimos partir para Montaņita. En el terminal me dijeron que el pasaje costaba US$5. Yo me las dí de negociante y me lo dejaron en $3 hasta Santa Elena. Pensé que había hecho un muy buen ...
Les plages du sud ouest (Puerto Lopez, Montanitas)
Suivant les conseils de Karina, la jolie equatorienne rencontree 10 jours plus tot dans l'avion, je m'attend a passer quelques jours de reves au bord des plages idylliques de la cote ouest qu'elle m'a conseille.... Mais premiere mauvaise surprise lors de ...
Back home in Montaņita und Wale in Puerto Lopez
... auf Freitag hatte ich mal wieder im Bus verbracht, diesmal von Loja im Sueden nach Guayaquil, der groessten Stadt in Ecuador mit 3 Mio. Einwohnern. Dort wollte ich mich eigentlich gar nicht aufhalten, sondern direkt umsteigen und den Bus nach Montaņita ...
More whales and surfing
... kitchen 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 ...
Bad weather but great fun
... 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 ...
"Next time you come to make the jungle babies?"
... of us had the energy to question the decision, and within minutes weīd embarked on the Ruta del Sol road down the coast of Ecuador. Now we werenīt completely passive in this, we were offered at the other end, a cheap room with a kitchen and enough beds ...
Montanita
... nbsp; 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 ...
Quizá con un poco sol Montaņita puede ser mejor
... (which to me is just asking for trouble). I must've drifted off and some bad person seized their opportunity. Not a good start to Ecuador :-( at least I had my passport and credit card in my pocket, so I can still take my flight to Galapagos and won't ...

