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"I will be late for class..."
... We were walking around, I felt aimlessly but it might have been part of the plan, before we landed on "Calle de Cócteles" (Street of Cocktails). This apptly named street was about a block long, leading from the center of town to the beach, and was lined on both sides with food-cart-style bars serving up any cocktail you could want. I thought how perfect it was that this street flowing with alcohol lead right to the beach, and, of course, there were plenty of ...
Sleeping with the Wolf Pack
We spent the night on the bus and arrived at Puerto Lopez at 5am. Instead of getting a hostel for a couple hours we borrowed some beach chairs and slept on the beach. We almost got scared off by the dog pack that had also decided to sleep on the beach. However, we made friends ...
Ecuador, show us your boobies.
... deep rich luxuriant rain forest, literally within quarter of a mile. Strange. We saw a giant Morpho butterfly flop out of the trees over the road with the inside of its wings flashing iridescent blue. These South American giant butterflies were legendary when I was a child collecting in South East Asia and the only credible rivals to Asia’s birdwing butterflies for beauty. I had only ever seen them once before in Bolivia twenty ...
Wannabe surfer in Montanita
... big secret round with us now and Cara has finally been able to consult all her friends who have recently had babies for advice.
All in all we hugely enjoyed our time here. Sleeping in a bamboo cabin with the sound of the waves keeping us awake at high tide…sleeping under a mosquito net for the first time since I was ten years old…it’s all been perfectly wonderful. (except the diarrhoea!)
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Puerto Lopez
... voor de eerste maal, echt alleen op weg. Deze keer naar Puerto Lopez, een rustig vissersstadje, op een uurtje rijden, ten noorden van Montañita.
Om de eenzaamheid te verdrijven heb ik daar maar onmiddelijk een tripje naar Isla De La Plata geboekt voor de volgende dag. Bij het boeken hoorde ik helaas wel het slechte nieuws dat er wellicht geen walvissen te zien zouden zijn wegens te laat op het jaar...
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