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Pedernales Slideshow
Pedernales
Travel Blogs from Pedernales, Ecuador
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Strange Things That Happen at the Beach
This is a top pick! ... and ready for an evening of more, and maybe better, French cooking. COCONUT BUNGALOWS AND REVERSE BABELIZATION: Pascal has been in Ecuador for 15 years. His Spanish is excellent, but he's lost most of his French. Michel speaks French and a bit of ...
The road to Pedernales
... Ok, so Pedernales. I was hoping to find a nice little beach town at the northern most bit of Ecuador's "Ruta del Sol". Well, Pedernales had a beach. A very little beach. Perhaps Pedernales is in the development stages, but it ...
Lalo Loor in full techicolour and sounds (maybe)
... is one of the most endangered forests in the world; theres a map showing how it has reduced over the last fifty years in Ecuador alone and its really heartbreaking. The aim of the trail is to educate people about the forest and hopefully lead to it and ...
Visit to a coastal rainforest
... my first time here in 2002, I hadn't really danced at all in my life, only in weddings back home. Back then, I realized that, here in Ecuador, you have no other options, you either join in and dance, or you get left out. I didn't want to go to bed back ...
Into the Wild Wild West....
... any case... We drove through the afternoon and ended up, at nightfall on Saturday night, in the wild west town of Pedernales. Pedernales is a fishing town, about of about 10-15K people. It has a big bus station and lots of outdoor ...
Volunteering in fishing village
We are spending 3 weeks volunteering. www.ecuadorvolunteer.org View the ¨Jama Project¨ We have been here for 2 weeks now. The project is run by a small organisation called Fundacion ARENA. Arena means sand in Spanish. Each day is ...
Galapagos- volcanic eruptions, and bizarre animals
Tues 10th May Puerto Ayara -Samba Have a fairly bad night's sleep as Murray now getting Dianne's flu. No worry about sleeping in, as workmen building the extension are stamping around on the roof at 6am. We go down for breakfast. The schoolkids are ...
The National Surfing Championship
... through the tropical dry forest and the scenery was absolutely gorgeous. At 7:45 we crossed the equator and at 8:00 we reached Pedernales. We all expected the campionship to be huge (I had an image of Ozzfest on the beach), but absolutely nothing was ...
Montinita
Hanging out in Montinita for more than 20minutes elliminated perception of time. We cheaked into a beachfront hostal for $5 a night owned by a crazy man named Vito who spent his days throwing squid at imaginary friends. Jose who showed us the place took ...
Pacifique
... plus vite que si j'avais pris le bus. En plus j'adore voyager la gueule au vent à l'arrière des pick-ups. A la sortie de Pedernales on me prend dans une remorque avec une famille de keublas qui essaient de me caser avec l'une de leur soeurs. J'arrive à ...
Zwischenstop auf dem Weg nach Canoa
nichts spezielles...es war einfach nur extrem heiss als ich ankam und dann regnete es die ganze Nacht durch...:-s ...
Entering Ecuador
... seem so random yet so right. Just to let you all know, I am currently in a little town called Baños (still in Ecuador) and found a part-time position teaching English. I am happier than cheezy words can explain to be able to interact with people in ...
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