Quito Condos - Reviews and Rates

Hola mi familia y amigos!

My apologies for a delayed first entry abroad....(Mom, Dad, Mr. and Mrs. Klayton, let me preface this story by noting that I am absolutely fine now, and that is all that matters!) I was struck with terrible altitude sickness within our first night in Quito. Keep in mind that D.C. is about sea level, and Quito is ...

June 18-22. Sometimes things happen to me and I don't realize why (especially in foreign countries). For instance, I have been breathing faster than my typical respiration rate every once in a while. Over the weekend, we were talking about higher altitudes. Then it clicked! My breathing problems can be attributed to the higher altitude of Quito,...

a few photos from around the city and from inside my hostal! so, i thought i would add some information about the street names in quito, the major avenues are named after major events on Ecuadorian history. 24 de mayo: the battle of pichincha, which ended in victory for Sucre and his troops and indepence from colonial rule ecuador in 1822. the s...

Villa Ticca is a day care centre set up by two Dutch women because they came to Quito in the hope of volunteering with kids and found terrible facilities and conditions for the kids of south Quito. The kids (aged 1-5) have to come from deprived backgrounds to qualify. They come in themorning around 8.30 and leave either 1.30 or 4.30. While they ...

I guess that will teach me for putting any faith in arbitrary old wive´s tales. My three pieces of bad news theory was blown out of the water within loterally 20 minutes of my last blog as I headed for a stroll up to the statue of an angel, El Panecillo, which overlooks Quito Old Town. No doubt, my dearly departed Lonely Planet guide book (I hav...

Well, this is where it all started, what can I say but flights, flights and more flights... well three to be exact.. We headed off from Dublin on the 10th with a few hours kip in Paris before the next morning came and the next flight... Destination: Columbia. No where near as dodgy as you think it would be though! not that we actually left the g...

I found out that the school in Cotopaxi is out on summer break so teaching English to the local children will be a bit more work than I had originally anticipated. I will be working vigorously to set up a summer program for 5-6 weeks (depending how quickly I can make the arrangements.) Although I don't plan to stay in Cotopaxi for the duration I...

"Mi lindo Ecuador!" "Hermoso Peru!" "The quiero Argentina!" "QueridoQuito!" So schreit es allerorten von Hauswaenden und manchmal auch Bergen. Suedamerikaner verleihen ihrem Patriotismus gerne deutlich Ausdruck. Im Falle von Quito kann ich nur aus vollstem Herzen zustimmen. Dieses Stadt ist ein Traum! Lindo, guapo, hermoso, bellisimo! Dazu muss ...

Claire: Afternoon everyone. As th title lets you know we are currently in Mindo. Its raining at the minute so we´ve dived into an internet place before catching the bus back to Quito. Mindo is a real small town about a 2 hour bus ride away. It was quite the journey as we wound down the mountains to only 1500m above sea level. Its much hotter dow...

From the Charles Darwin Centre we took an old coach back across the island of 'Santa Cruz' to the ferry at "Canal de Itabaca', which was a 200 metre channel between Santa Crux and "Isla Baltra' and then back to the airport. A long wait, in what was just a big shed and then into the 'Departure Area', where we were soon ready to walk out to our pl...