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Travel Blogs from Shell, Ecuador
Day 9 Galapagos Islands
Punta Cormorant This island has some breeding pink flamingos, I can't understand why Billy does not like these birds, he thinks they are very ugly for some reason. Sea turtles also breed on this island, there are nest all along the shore, ...
Jungleyness :)
Merazinia was lush. Beautiful scenery and lovely people and animals and not overly jungley! I think it was a very good place to start off. Being secondary rainforest, the climate was not too extreme, and the surroundings were fine to ...
Endlich Winter / Everybody goes surfing
Endlich, endlich ist der Nieselregen vorbei! Eigentlich wie von einem Tag auf den anderen kam endlich die Sonne raus und es begann so zu werden, wie es eigentlich in Suedamerika sein soll, sonnig und warm, den ganzen Tag. Morgens kann man in kurzen Hosen ...
The Countryside
... or wool skirt, and the women often sport a darkly shaded fedora, which has developed as a symbol of indigenousness throughout Ecuador. Once completing our journey through this landscape, we arrived at our "hostel." We were there for only a ...
Quilotoa Circuit & Latacunga Loop
This is one of the most scenic mountain paths in Ecuador. It's basically an 8 hour bus ride with a stop in the middle and their is heaps of tramping and horse riding that you can do. The place is really beautiful and we spent a day here going to the ...
Volunteering
This is actually about the reserve that we are working in but is placed at Puyo as Tsuraku is way to small to show up on the map. Tsuraku is 51km south of Puyo and takes 2 hours to get to by bus! It apparently has about 400 inhabitants made up by ...
Isla de la Plata
La veille, on avait réservé un tour pour l'Isla de la Plata (j'ai noté 25$+20$ mais je me souviens pas ŕ quoi ça correspond). En attendant dans l'agence les retardataires, on discute avec un missionnaire US. Il est en vacances et ses parents sont ...
Journey to the coast
... out of bamboo and sitting on stilts, the endless number of incomplete cement brick homes that seem to freckle all of Ecuador, passing the bus window like frames on 35mm film. But real life differs distinctly from the commercials and pamphlets that ...
Day 23 Devils Nose
We got to this town and wow what can I say, Bill thinks the accommodation is the worse yet, but frankly I think the shower is the best yet. It is a very small town where everyone will know each other, and poor, more so than other places we ...
Bienvenido a Quito
Hola de Quito Ecuador! Our first day in Ecuador was a huge success. Our Primary Objective for the day was to select a language school, with the hopes of starting classes and a homestay next Monday. We had researched schools using our guidebook and the ...
Devils Nose train ride & gorgeous Cuenca!!
... also incorporates Museo Pumapungo, an archeological site. The Museum have great exhibits of all the previous inhabitants of Ecuador. The shrunken heads were the highlight as was the archeological site itself. Wandered around the old ...
Robbed in Banos
I do not have beautiful memories of my trip to Ecuador. I went directly to Banos from Quito. I wanted to enjoy the hiking, the hot mineral springs baths and the nice climate. It was only my second day there. I locked my hostal room and went down to ...
Wichtiger Besuch...
Meine lieben Daheimgebliebenen, Schon länger habt ihr nichts mehr von mir gehört… So hatten die einen vielleicht Zeit, sich auf den neusten Stand zu bringen, die anderen sind sehnlichst am Warten…?! Wie auch immer… Bei euch kehrt ...
Lord of the Rings-esque hike plus scary fog kids!
After Lora, David, Alex and Evan from our volunteering took a trip to Laguna de Quilatoa one weekend me and Hayley were amazed by their photos and decided to stop off there on route to Quito. We were originally going to go, look, take photos, maybe ...
Vulcano Cotopaxi
29th June - Took the mornig bus from Quito to Latacunga, for the ridiculously expensive price of USD $2 for the two hour trip which included a free bottle of water and packet of chips! I booked into the pricey but quite swish Hotel Cotopaxi then took ...
Conociendo la mitad del mundo
... desvían acelerando en la dirección de giro (este) si van hacia los polos o al contrario (oeste) si van hacia el ecuador. La manifestación de estas desviaciones produce (…), que las borrascas tiendan a girar en el hemisferio sur en el sentido de ...
De reuze schildpadden .
21-3-2009 Vandaag hebben we het Scharles Darwin Fondation bezocht.. Hier worden studies gedaan met betrekking tot de verbetering (herstel ) van de flora en fauna van de Galapagos. Hoewel de Galapagos reeds eind 1800 tot ...
The Rainforest, the Tropical Rainforest
After a full day of rafting, we were dropped off at Hotel Shangrila in the rainforest. We hiked down a short path to our rooms. After, we were able to take our first hot shower in a few days. We then relaxed in hammocks and watched the ...
Riding the Devil´s Nose with Gemma's new boyfriend
Getting up at 5am was well worth it just to be able to ride the route of the famous Devil's Nose train. The tracks wind their way along the steep face of the magnificent mountain scenery, clinging to the side of the rock face. The best bit is that you ...
marked i Saguisili
Ver torsdag er det er marked i Saguisili som ligger ca. 2 timers kjoring sor for Quito. det er et marked til befolkningn i Ecuador og saerlig til bondene som som oftest er indianere. det er et dyre, mat og klaer marked. skolen organiserte en tur dit og ...
Isla Santa Cruz
... could have been grazing in that same field before the 20th century. Back at the ranch house, our guide Socrates showed us a shell found on the property some time ago, and Holly and Bill even tried it on for size. In the afternoon, we ...
Rafting i toalettene og pupper med blaa foetter
... ta en dukkert i havet. Oppholdet i baade Banos og Puerto Lopez vil jeg karakterisere som ganske saa trivelige, men under mine 2 uker i Ecuador saa maa kanskje oppholdet i Otavalo sies aa vaere det beste. I Banos, og kanskje spesielt her i Puerto Lopez har ...
Adventszeit!
Weiss gar nicht, wo ich mit erzählen beginnen soll, denn die Adventszeit ist hier voll von Aktionen. Einerseits hatten die Kinder im Kindergarten immer wieder Auftritte, bei denen ich auch zum Zuge kam. Leider beginnen die Lehrerinnen für meine ...
Meeting Family and Sangolqui
... me: what Minnesota is like, how long I´ve been playing the banjo, why I´m interested in breakdancing as well as what I think of Ecuador and what there is to do in Sangolqui. Frankly, I had trouble wiping the stupid grin off my face. It was there ...
Laguna Quilatoa
July 2nd - Took the morning bus to the incredible crater lake Laguna Quilatoa. The scenery on the bus ride was magnificent, despite the bus being 1.5 hours late and therefore making me miss the bus back. I walked to the bottom of the crater, ...