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- Quito
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 13,183,978
- Population
- EC
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Travel Blogs from Quito, Ecuador, Ecuador
Beautiful Beautiful Quito
This is a top pick! ... beautiful, every turn you take, you see another amazing piece of architecture or a building of historical significance. I´m so glad I squeezed Ecuador into my trip. To the south of the Old Town is a small hill called El Panecillo and is topped by a ...
I strongly dislike MIA (and Quito is pretty cool)
This is a top pick! So here I am in Quito, Ecuador after an extremely long >24 hours of travel. I was scheduled for a 2.5 hour layover in Miami, but our 5:02 PM departure time came and went, without much of an explanation offered. Finally the news trickled through the ...
Isn't it hot and humid at the Equator?
This is a top pick! Arrive in Quito, Ecuador... a bit of information for those of you plannint to wander around S America some day...if you enter Ecuador, you need proof that you´re going to leave again...like a plane tkt out of there....which I didn´t have...in which case ...
Living it up in Quito
This is a top pick! ... more and more we prefer being out of cities and wandering around the countryside, however all in all I really enjoyed our time in Quito, mainly because our apartment felt like a home and it was nice having the routine of Spanish lessons, albeit for a ...
It's the middle of the world as we know it...
This is a top pick! ... , myself excluded, was very tan unless otherwise noted). I told him a little about my trip, how I'm hoping to travel through Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. I mentioned how I knew it would be very difficult to reach the northeastern part of the Amazon in ...
Leaving on a jet plane, better get seat 23A...
This is a top pick! ... on the plane...sorry about that). This put me about 7 degrees of separation away from the Arpis. In Ecuador, this means I'm family. They live in Quito, about a 5 minute walk from the Airport (read: convenience). The house is like every house here: ...
extraction from the islands....
This is a top pick! ... are throngs of people in the streets....everyone is out...not only for the whole very serious religious theme going on for Semana Santa but also to socialize and to festivalize... Quito at its best as far as I'm concerned...must be time to move ...
A slice of Home
This is a top pick! Hi, So I got a phone call last night!!!!! : ) Yes my frined Sharon called and it was so nice to have a chat with someone from home. Even if she killed herself laughing at me being called "Hulia" by Olga. (Sometimes I even get "Hulita" as a nickname). ...
I'll make you famous!
This is a top pick! Dean: Just to let you all know, we have added an extra entry for Boston (USA). It´s entry number 29 "I'll make you famous!". We will leave you to see what it is all ...
The Gorgeous Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... Islands is truly the most amazing place on earth! Its indescribably beautiful...... Let me start from the beginning..... I flew out of Quito about 2 weeks ago onto the main island, where I met a cool Israeli girl, Osnat, and we sorted out a place ...
Conspiracy Theory
This is a top pick! ... we spend only 2 hrs in class and the other 2 we go on a field trip with the school to the top of a mountain here in Quito. Today it is "cold" according to the locals. It is 17 degrees! It is raining and the clouds are hanging low over the city. I ...
Bladders weren't made to be tested
This is a top pick! ... pass up a toilet break when it’s offered to you. Never ever! In hindsight, we did have an awesome ride into Quito and I wouldn’t do anything different (except take that toilet break at the toll booth before the drive through Quito traffic). ...
Volcano Views and Bones in our Soup
This is a top pick! We made it to Ecuador! Monday was long, but no problems. We left Kzoo at 8:25 in the morning and after stops in Detroit and Houston, arrived in Quito at around 10:20 that night. We managed to pack light enough not to have to check anything (but had to ...
Off to see a Penguin!!!!
This is a top pick! ... tomorrow from Quito - really cold here at 10,000 feet altitude(wearing my down jacket as I write this!) , to Guayaquil (middle of Ecuador)then on to the Galapagos Islands - obviously sea level. Yesterday we flew from Manta - sea level to ...
4 months in...
This is a top pick! ... make it a great place to be, and I have fallen in love with diving in the Caribbean Sea! We are now in South America, in Quito, which has changed since we were here last (about five years ago). It seems to have come on in leaps and bounds and is a very ...
Getting high in Quito
This is a top pick! ... but said yes so again we avoiding the tax desk and just went through. Nobody batted an eye-lid so I was on my way to Quito, Ecuador and our 23rd country of the trip. I spent most of the flight writing the blog and sat next to a man with the ...
A Near Death Experience and the Return of Esteban
This is a top pick! ... cost $16 US and came with a side of potatoes and avocadoes in a delicious cream sauce. Pretty expensive sure, but In Ecuador, guinea pig or ¨cuy¨ is considered a delicacy. And to be safe, I ate it at a classy restaurant to make sure ...
Ola
This is a top pick! ... is much cheaper here. .70 US an hour.In Panama city it was $2.50 an hour. We haven´t decided what to do here in Ecuador other than the Spanish classes and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. Anyone have any input? It sure was nice to be home over the ...
And so it begins...
This is a top pick! ... Garden today after they were full yesterday, a very cool little hostel in town with an incredible rooftop patio overlooking the old city. Ecuador is going to be very cheap and give the budget a nice soft start (just finished a massive two course meal with ...
around quito
This is a top pick! I spent my first full day in Quito walking around the Old Town part of the city and going to the Basilica here. We learned how to salsa (sort of) on the roof of the hostel last night. I walked around the city with Karen, who is from Atlanta and is ...
Back to the start ...
This is a top pick! ... my knees on the kerb to get away from a yappy dog. Not one of my finest moments. - inadvertently asking a waiter in Ecuador for a well-known sexual position when I meant to ask for seafood pasta. - knocking a small boy over with my rucksack then ...
Saying goodbye in Quito
This is a top pick! ... for one last time. On Monday morning, after Pete and Jen had finished their packing, we headed down to the Old Town of Quito for a bit of sightseeing... though we had spent quite a bit of time in Quito, it was always in transit to/from Galapagos or ...
Cool Quito and Beautiful Baños
This is a top pick! ... as it is testing. But I had a week of freedom left so it was off to Baños .. the premium holiday resort for Ecuador (apparently more popular for Ecuadorians than Galapagos). Baños is in a stunning setting with huge hills on all sides and built on a ...
Quito - Our first stop in South America
This is a top pick! ... was really good, and it fulfilled a craving I have had since the US. We didn't feel like we had seen much of Quito in our last trip to Ecuador (mainly due to altitude sickness) so we went to the old town to have a look around. We got the bus over and ...
Hablamos Espagnol muy bien a hora!
This is a top pick! ... city. We went to the square behind us where there were loads of tvs and supporters watching it. Was a great match (Ecuador won 3-0 if you didnt know) and the atmosphere was fantastic as hundreds of people were watching and getting very emotional about ...
A big jump makes full circle.
This is a top pick! ... how long we will stay in Ecuador before trying to make our way to the coast of Brazil. We will probably end up visiting Quito together before leaving Ecuador, but just in case we end up skipping it, I thought it safest to go here on my own for a couple of ...
learning spanish and avoiding dogs
This is a top pick! ... rented out the flat, and here I am starting my year away (if the money, or indeed I, last that long) at a language school in Quito, Ecuador (or Squito as I called it for the first few days but let's not go there). I'm staying with a family in the north ...
Semana Santa Procesión (Holy Week Procession)
This is a top pick! ... highlight of the week is the Good Friday Procession, in which seemingly thousands of people participate. The procession in Quito is a whole-day event, and starts at Plaza San Francisco in the morning. The participants march throughout the ...
Starting our overland advenure!
This is a top pick! Met up with the rest of our group at the hotel which is posher than we are used to! Ben is our leader and driver and AJ another driver both from UK. Group is quite small - 13 in total which is good and from Oz, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and ...
Fortunately, waiting isn't so bad
This is a top pick! ... thing. Unfortunately, however, I don't have much else to talk about. So here's a little update on the political situation in Ecuador and how it may affect travel plans. Unfortunately, (no were not starting that again) there is an oil workers strike or ...