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Loja Slideshow
Loja
Travel Blogs from Loja, Ecuador
Bear fat, anyone?
... it. Erin had to run after the bus waving her arms to flag them down. Once on the bus, the ¨infomercials¨started. In Ecuador, vendors hop on the buses at various stops and start their often very entertaining pitches. The first one today was for ¨Grasa ...
I love the sound of gunshots in the morning
... the rancheras (transport trucks) but managed to hop in the back of a pickup with 4 Europeans to go to La Balsa at the Ecuador/Peru border. It cost us about $3.50/each. Once there we went through the very easy process of immigration and were permitted 90 ...
This is Vilcabamba
Vilcabamba is a is a small tow in the Loja province in south Ecuador. The town located in The Valley on Longevity. The town and the Valley are famous because locals claim that people here live to be really old, Wikipedia offers two explanations, and I ...
Is it Wednesday? ... we must be in Lima
... blown inside tyre in the desert south of Lima, a certain amount of homocidal driving, a lot of minor landslips since we entered Ecuador, and me discovering a cockroach party down the back of my seat when I foolishly went fishing for the seatbelt. Oh, and ...
Vilcabamba - relaxing anyone!
Wednesday 14th October Arrived in Loja pretty knackered and with no buses to Vilcabamba for about 2 hours. Lucky for me the one restaurant open at that hour had a tv and Man Utd were on, a reply of a Champions League game! Good luck for Dario. I ended up ...
Quick escape!
... we made a quick getaway. We drove solid for about 3 hours before deciding on our next step. Our only safe option was to get out of Ecuador as soon as possible to head for Peru, so no Cuenca and no spa for us! We found a dodgy campsite just as it got ...
Bumming in Vilcabamba
... shops with more westernised food and way too much English being spoken in the main square, didn't really help me truly experience Ecuador so well. When you arrive at the hostel they give you a folder with a bunch of information and walking trails in the ...
Carnevale
Back in Ecuador, although greeted by spring temperatures, sunshine and the purring of Luigi the cat, I found myself being on the blue shade of life. I was still a little ill, tired out by an unkind Iberia flight and missed my other half a lot. On top of ...
Continuing my journey through the Andes
... nbsp; This was an eight hour journey, but through some fantastic mountain scenery, so the time passed surprisingly quickly. In Loja I found a cheap hotel to stay at (Hotel Londres - how appropriate considering what my home city is back in England!) ...
Vilcabamba to Araquipa
... is easy to spend time watching the sky and the birds and butterflies from the veranda, time flies! 16th April Take the bus from Loja in Ecquador to Piura in Peru. Great to be travelling in the day and the scenery throughout the journey is worth the hours ...
"Don't hoot, give life a smile"
Al día siguiente, dirección Vilcabamba, una suerte de "hippie town" tranquilla pero demasiada llena de turistas para mi gusto... Hermosa excursión al Cerro Mandango, desde el cual se tiene fantásticas vistas sobre el valle. Por desgracia, empezó a ...
Vilcabamba
... realised ´sentarse´is the spanish for ´to sit down´. After Vilcabamba we took the bus back to Loja bus terminal and took the bus to Piura, Peru with a company called Loja International, a reccomended way of getting to Peru. ...
Mar 11, 2011
Loja
Loja is a nice town with some great mountain views. It is supposedly the music capital of Ecuador. We only stayed one night but Hotel America was great. Nice large room with a balcony that over looked the street, real hot shower (8.5), TV, nice bed, and ...
Short But Sweet, Pictures Soon!!
... move. Hop out and actually walk across the boarder, not as grand as it seems although you do cross a bridge into Ecuador. From there up a street lined with commercial fruit vendors (8 bananas 25cents). Into another cab near the bus terminal ...
Die Arbeit mit den Kindern beginnt
Hoi zaeme Ich bin nun seit ueber einer Woche in Catamayo und habe meine Arbeit mit den Kindern begonnen. Es macht Spass mit den Kindern zusammen zu sein. Sie sind sehr aufgestellt und dankbar, wenn man sich mit ihnen abgibt. Im Moment ist es noch ...
Meine Zeit in Catamayo
... Kuchen backen waren der Hit. An den Wochenenden sind wir meistens unterwegs und erkunden die schoene Umgebung im Sueden von Ecuador. Es gibt immer viel zu entdecken, seien es exotische Pflanzen oder Tiere oder die wunderschoene Landschaft. Das waers ...
Week 23 – Rock Climbing & On The Road
... , I know… easier said than done hey :D). On a separate note, if you’re going from Huaraz, Peru to Vilcabamba, Ecuador using the La Blasa border crossing, get a bus from Huaraz to Chiclayo (not to Trujillo) as there are more companies going on ...
PANAMA HATS & THE VALLEY OF LONGEVITY
After an 8 hour bus ride I arrived in Cuenca, a colonial city in the south of Ecuador. I jumped into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hostel, only to receive the dubious response that it didn't exist. Hmmm...I clarified I was indeed in Cuenca and not in ...
A taste of what's to come
Conspiracies are still brewing inside the phobic minds of many gringos and whilst the new agers are busy buying huge quantities of dry goods in sight of the apocaliptic planet pole shift due to manifest at the end of October, Fintan and I have moved ...
Last few days in Ecuador sob sob
After leaving the Galapagos feeling slightly worse than when we arrived we needed a couple of days recovery, and heard about a lovely little town in the mountains called Vilcabamba, perfect for relaxing. It really was beautiful, we stayed in a German ...
Nathan´s Peruvian Rambles
Peru was...well, Peru was. It is definitely an interesting country, but I expect one that will continue to have it rough for some time to come. With over 50% unemployment, political turmoil and scandals, and a whole slough of internal ...
This house is too cute said Goldilocks
Red Riding Hood's granma's house got sold. Sadly. I was hoping to spend Christmas there and see those big mangoes ripen in front of my eyes from lying on the red hammock. Luckily it didn't take me long to find another...ahem..shelter... Goodbye Red ...
Vilcabamba
On part donc de Cuenca et après 4h de bus, on fait notre 1ère halte à Loja : visite des marchés et de la ville. On reprend finalement assez rapidement le bus, notre destination étant Vilcabamba. 2kms de marche plus tard (avec 2 sacs pour 3), on ...
Bus to Loja, Ecuador
... decide to take the less travelled route and take the bus (Loja International) via Piura (3 hrs north of Chiclayo) to Loja, Ecuador (9 more hours) through scenic mountain settings. Although the bus looked pretty run-down from the outside it us ...
Alloha Loja!
We arrived in Loja after an 8 hour bus journey really tired and amazed at how hot it was! We were also really excited as the scenery on the way and in Equador was beautiful so we were looking forward to doing some exploring! We checked into our hostel, ...
Fortress Keulap
My birthday! (although I'm long past caring about it Swita likes to make a big deal of it – probably so I have to make a big deal of her’s on 01/01). Went to the main square to get the minibus for the Kuelap tour, mostly Peruvians and a guide ...
Paradise found in Vilcabamba..
The Hostel was more a Resort at Backpacker prices: Dorm accommodation incl. Great Breakfast, pool and stunning views at 10 US$/night. Just left my Hammock for the occasional heavenly (and inexpensive) massage or body-scrub.. Great food, meeting a lot of ...