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Peace Corps Ecuador on Mount Everest
This is a top pick! I just think this is a pretty sweet picture of the boyfriend of my Boss who is representing PC-Ecuador on Mt. Everest. Check out the photo! Dear PCVs, I wanted to share with you the amazing news about Edison Oņa on Mt.Everest! He made it to ...
Pictures No Mas
This is a top pick! So I realized my camera wasnīt broken after all, 2 weeks after a bottle of liquid shattered in the bag in which it was in... Since, I have gone camera crazy! Enjoy a the photos of my new site. ...
Questionnaire (2)
This is a top pick! Three more quick questions, 1) how much money are you making currently, 2) what are you going to do when you come back 3) were you an accounting major? Thanks! 1) As a volunteer I make enough money to pay for everything I need. Full coverage ...
Things Learned Thus Far
This is a top pick! 1) Ability to stand in front of a room full of ladies who have no idea what I have said for the last 75 minutes without one of them leaving the room. 2) The ability to nod continuously and say ĻsiĻevery 15 seconds during a conversation which was ...
Back to my Roots: Commercial Fishing Ecuador Style
This is a top pick! ... these two men. On the Kenai River, 300 fish is a day to forget between a crew of 6... Just like with most things here, a fish has Ļa bitĻ more value in Ecuador than it does back home. Enjoy the video and photos of commercial fishing, Ecuador ...
Isla de la Plata, the poor man's Galápagos
... beach of Los Frailes, coral reef, tropical dry forest and pre-Colombian ruins. Leaving the Pacific lowlands I head for Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, to spend the weekend. Instead of continuing further south and cross the border with Peru, I decide ...
Humpback whale watching ends our 9-month trip
... Catatumbo lightning, Venezuela 10. Lake Apoya, Nicaragua Top ten wildlife encounters 1. Humpback whale watching, Puerto Lopez, Ecuador 2. Giant Armadillo, mouse opossum, hummingbirds, snakes, Tambopata, Peru 3. Small armadillo and foxes, ...
Meeting the whales!
It was another "fun" bus ride from Canoa to Portoviejo and from there to Puerto Lopez. However, we shouldn't scare people off from taking buses along the coast. If you plan ahead your trip and bus service things can work pretty well – occasionally! ...
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Off to the Coast ...
... nbsp; There were also some dolphins riding the waves near the boat. They are so graceful it was wonderful to watch. Puerto Lopez itself is a relatively small town. Around half of the roads are unmade or being made and the main form of ...
Eine kleine Freundin und Garnelenspiesse am Strand
... ist. Für zwei Dollar haben wir einen riesigen Beutel voll frischer Garnelen gekauft. Und dazu noch einen grossen Fisch. Auch in Puerto Lopez waren die Leute superfreundlich und hilfsbereit und bald wusste der ganze Ort, dass sich am Strand zwei "Gäste" ...
Boy at the beach
... returned to being seasonally overcast, so we decided to move on. But the “best” option was a five hour bus from Puerto Lopez to Guayaquil, then a six hour bus to Banõs. 11 hours on a bloody bus!!! Full Facebook album: ...
killer puffers and snorkeling
uySome of the best times I have while traveling involve the variety of characters I meet along the way. Puerto Lopez, a small fishing village along the coast of Ecuador, had its own cast of unusual people. The first night I was there, I was ...
Beautiful beach
... take me out for a drink and then I started to wish Jon was there. Well there were other travlers in the tukk tukk and we all met later with jon (who apologiesed ) on the beach for some drinks. Short and sweet our time in Lopez and Quito it is tomorrow! ...
Whale Watching in Puerto Lopez
I had a couple days to burn before my Galapagos trip so I decided to head to the Pacific coast to try and catch the tail end of the humpback whale's mating season. I wasn't sure if I would be wasting my time because the mating season is said to be from ...
Bellas Bellenas (beautiful whales)
... ,000 people!). I arrived closer to 10pm and missed the last buses heading toward the coast...I needed to take 2 to get to Puerto Lopez (PL). I thought I had more time, since the message I read from Chris said he was arriving the next night, so ...
Whales and not much else
... at least it took us straight to where we wanted to be to see the whales. A small fishing town on the West coast of Ecuador, Puerto Lopez doesn't really have anything to offer other than being the ideal spot to set off from to visit Isla de la Plata and to ...
Having a whale of a time…
After our time in Galapagos we continued our wildlife odyssey in search of humpback whales in Ecuador's coastal National Park near Puerto Lopez. After the most memorable 8 days of our journey so far we were worried our next stop may be an anticlimax, we ...
Got anything smaller?
Spent a lazy day in Puerto Lopez. Canīt remember what I did actually. So lazy. This town is a bit of a hole. Once you get off the foreshore things are pretty dodgy. Thereīs a half finished street and plenty of rubble strewn ...
Thar she blows!
... Lopez There can be few sights more spectacular than a jumping humpback whale. I decided this in the little fishing village of Puerto Lopez. We arrived after a night on the bus from Quito and headed out the same morning. About an hour out Nancy and ...
On the move to Puerto Lopez
... (and Flo his friend although he stayed in Quito to go Mountain climbing). So, after our four hour trip, finally got to Puerto Lopez. Although warmer was overcast, but still a great coastal town. It always seems to amaze me that the welcoming party is ...
Back home in Montaņita und Wale in Puerto Lopez
... zu machen. Am Montag habe ich eine Whale-Watching-Tour gemacht. Die Buckelwale sind von Juli bis Oktober vor der Kueste von Puerto Lopez, einer kleinen Stadt, um sich zu paaren. Zu der Zeit kann man eben diese Touren machen und ein bisschen neben den ...
Vamos A La Playa! (Letīs Go to the Beach!)
... pacific coast. Itīs probably the best-known and most popular whale-watching destination in Ecuador, and, understandably, most of Puerto Lopez's activities center around the ocean. Humpback whales swimming north from Antarctica can be seen gathering ...
"Next time you come to make the jungle babies?"
... was definitely enough and the next day we got the hell on outta thurr, and headed right back up the Ruta del Sol to Puerto Lopez. Close to the Parque National Machalilla, Puerto Lopez is a sleepy fishing town whose main purpose is to serve as a base for ...
Manta Rays!
... Kate and Pete who we have accidentally run into again! They have the room next door to ours! Small world. Puerto Lopez is a quite small fishing town, pretty charming in a dirty kind of way. Our hotel room overlooks the ...
Fishing and hat hunting
... . We stumbled upon a lock in karaoke bar! When I tell you that everyone was sooo bad that I even actually sang with confidence, you will get the idea of how shockingly horrendous the locals were. My first karaoke ever and it was in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador ...
Humpback whale spotting in Puerto Lopez
A: We left the next day for Puerto Lopez further down the coast. After taking a bus, boat, bicycle rickshaw, and another two buses we arrived at our destination in the late afternoon. The journey took us through some poor rural areas and countless ...