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- Quito
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
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- 13,183,978
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Ecuador Slideshow
Ecuador
Travel Blogs from Ecuador
Galapagos.. at last!
Finalmente eccoci arrivati alle Galapagos... ancora non mi pare vero! Da Quito a Guayaquil e da lė a Baltra dove prendiamo un bus, poi un traghetto e poi un altro bus fino a Puerto Ayora dove ci imbarchiamo sulla barca che per una settimana ci porterā ...
Beautiful Cajas National Park
... when I actually wrote into my notebook, when I have that rare chance) So I just finished hiking around Lake Toreadora, in Ecuador's National Park "Las Cajas". I began around 11.15am, thinking it looked short and easy enough. After getting ...
Beauty Salon and Food Stalls
So. Have now reached the Andean town Riobamba. I walked by a beauty salon that advertised Manicures $2 and Pedicures $3 so I thought I´d give it a go since the Salon looked so very Peach coloured underneath the dirt on the walls. It was hillarious. The ...
Tungurahua
Hard slog up Tungurahua Volcano. Got dropped off 4Km from the refugio and started the muddy trek... even though we had all planned to do this expo days earlier not one of us (except the guide of course) was prepared: no rain gear,hiking boots... DOH! ...
Aņo Viejo in Ecuador
... walking through the city to see what everyone else was doing, which is what everyone else was doing, also. The tradition in Ecuador is to make a paper machet or cloth person sometime during the month of December, normally in the form of one of your ...
Climbing in Cojitambo
Highlight of Cojitambo: awesome grilled cheese sandwiches at the breakfast spot. They were delicious (I think they must have had an American kept captive in the back or something). Katie and I ...
Buggys in Baņos
... and in doing so stumbled across a really great bargain deal for a little luxury lodge at the foot of Cotapaxi Mountain (volcano!) the second highest peak in Ecuador. We will spend 1 day in Quito first but our next official stop will be Cotapaxi... ...
The Andies 3330m above sea level
Could feel the altitude as the bus travelled up the winding roads towards the Colombian border. Beautiful landscape with mountains (volcanoes) and fields on the hillsides. Got off the bus in the town San Gabriel and took a taxi from there via ...
Shark in the water
Day 6, snorkeling from the beach on Genovesa island and the visibility is terrible due to strong waves close to shore. Most of the group are on the beach, with me and two other members of the group (and Canadian sub-aqua hockey team - yes, that's an ...
