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Loja Slideshow
Loja
Travel Blogs from Loja, Ecuador
Carnet de route de CUENCA a LOJA
... mes genoux et les petites bonnes femmes chargées comme des mules qui tombent sur les genoux de Charles à chaque virage. Un dimanche a Loja c'est comme un dimanche de déprime généralisée... pluie diluvienne, pas un boui boui d'ouvert, pas de resto, ...
Relaxbamba
Vanuit Cuenca zijn we doorgegaan naar Vilcabamba, een dorp in een vallei vol langlevende mensen. Waarschijnlijk zit het in het water ;-). Dat lange leven hebben we niet echt ervaren, maar het is een heerlijke plaats om in je hangmat naar de bergen in ...
Been A While
... , it has been a very long time since I have updated my website. I went home to the States in December, returned to Ecuador in January, and have been working quite a bit and haven't had much of a chance to do any updates. I actually forgot about ...
Aloha, Loja
... I'm not staying in Piura, but I don't know where's next yet. I'll figure that out when I get to the bus station I guess. Loja was recommended by my guide book as a "friendly, pleasant highland city". I guess none of that is wrong, but there's also ...
Cuenca, Malacatos, House update and USA.
... Kim, then to Medford to handle our storage unit. Then back to play again in So. Cal before taking a plane back to Ecuador. After that, Bruce takes off to see his son Sam graduate from Basic Training-Air Force. He was accepted to their linguistic program ...
Loja for good
... to town in the middle of the Fiestas for the Virgen del Cisne. These fiestas last like two months or so. I realize that Ecuador never comes up short of fiestas. Myself, being catholic and attending catholic schools for 12 years, I have always known ...
Vilcabamba, Ecuador
... bus journey next day... now that wasn´t a smart plan was it!!! Vilcabamba was our last stop of any note in Ecuador (we did stop in Loja for 1 night, but it don´t count) Our overall feeling on Ecuador.... Apart from that "little incident" on the ...
New Year unfolds in Paradise
... 8212;only always! A few weeks later. Sorry for the delay in publishing this! Bruce is working on developing a new business here in Ecuador, and it’s occupied a great deal of his time. Has great folks to work with… We’ve been pretty full ...
Bumming In Vilcabamba
... ) or The valley of Longevity thus maned as many of the locals persistently exceed 100 years of age. This tranquil valley in southern Ecuador is often frequented by visitors trying to obtain the secret to prolong life, for me I had been told a German ...
An Intro To Mountaineering
I decided it was about time to give the old legs and lungs a bit of exercise, so myself and 2 Swiss lasses chose a leisurely meander through the Rumi Wilco nature reserve on the other side of Vilcabamba village to check out the precisely labeled ...
The Teachings of Don Pedro
Coming soon... Went to visit a Shaman for the "Sacret Medicinal Journey". But don´t hold your breath cos there is a lot to say here, and it could take sometime!! But I will get it out there soon!! Do You ...
Not the North Pole, nor Greenland, nor Finland...
Finally the search for Santa's hideout has come to an end... and no, it's not on the North Pole, nor is it on Greenland, nor Finland for that matter... He lives on the bus station in ...
Ecuador - "niu countri"!
... wasn´t that good either - the worse line in Peru (although it is officially Ecuadorian owned). We were not expecting too much from Ecuador. The first impression was not too good, especially as the roads were initially bad and full of road works due to ...
Ecuador - travelling, the best and worst
The Best - Ecuador is a country of huge variety - for example there are over 20,000 plant species in Ecuador while the North American continent has 17,000. I'm not big into the plants but in terms of travelling there is so much variety ...
Ecuador - Loja
... The last few days in Peru were marked by a dryness and a climate of deserts, pot marked with cities. The entry into Ecuador was markedley different and most welcome. The hills were green, the clouds hung low, the farms were perfectly delineated, the ...
May 2012 from Vilcabamba, Ecuador!
... the tourist influx still seems absent compared with the past two years. Perhaps June will bring their arrivals. I hear that the Loja/Catamayo airport will be closing for one year. Alternatives for travel include driving in from Cuenca (incredible 3-4 hour ...
Website update!
Hi everyone, I just updated my website and thought you might want to check it out. To visit, just click on the links below or paste the URLs into your browser. Site http://www.vilcabambarentals.com Take a look and let me know what you think! ...
Fountain of youth and goulash
Izhcayluma is the most wonderful hostel of this trip. A little porch off the dormitory with some lawn, some trees and a couple of enormous green mountains to rest your eyes ...
Hikes, Horseback rides and Hammocks!
... it? What's wrong?" Steve: "I just saw a lobster under the pillow." - Tip of the day: A taxi to Loja only costs USD$15, even at 5am so that 7am bus from Loja to Peru now becomes a possibility without having to spend a night in Loja if you don't want ...
Just a few more pictures
In order to avoid breaking the "karma" we are in due to relaxation, just a few pictures to keep people ...
The catch up report with photos
... check out what you are up to! Sounds like fun to me. Only we don't have full time internet here, currently in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. The most simple of solutions seems to be the internet café--$1.10-$1.25/hour, depending if you use Skype or not. I ...
Settling in Vilcabamba style
... on shuffle, so I never know what's going to play next. It's an unraveling sort of day. I've spent the past 2 days in Loja--40 minutes from here in a $3 or $6 shared taxi. The drive there is magnificent in parts. The hillsides have ziz-zagging trails from ...
Lovely Vilcabamba
... Claire was in our room, while Nicki was next door. They're two friends from Guildford, both 22, who had been traveling in Ecuador for a bit longer than us; in fact, it became apprent that we seemed to have unwittingly overlapped in Cuenca. On the ...
Vilcabamba Thanksgiving wishes to all!
... to pick up the 25 pound turkey we are cooking for the ex-pat's feast this week. A friend had picked up 3 turkeys in Loja, 45 minutes from here. The sun was setting and it was fairly dark. The electricity was off. Everywhere we looked houses emitted ...
Oh to be a poet.....
The valley of longevity sits close to the centre of the earth at the bottom of Ecuador a few hours south of Loja in a valley of green hills and low clouds and if you're a poet you probably have your head up your arse. The place must have spawned its fair ...
Ecuadorrrrrrrr
... diese kurze distanz unglaublich), durch den amazonas auf der ladeflaeche mehrerer lkws und pick-ups, bin ich nun endlich in ecuador angekommen! hier in der gesuendesten stadt von ecuador, zumindest der in der die menschen am aeltesten werden. uebel ...