Quito Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

We've spent that last couple of days exploring round Quito, before we disappear off to the Galapagos tomorrow. There are some beautiful parts in the old town, and yesterday we went on the infamous 'Teleferico', which is a 6 person bubble car that soars up out of the city, to a shoulder at 4100m on the mountains that tower above Quito. The view f...

Arrived in Quito at around 1230 pm after an overnight flight originating from SFO via LAX and Bogota. Getting out of the airport was unpleasant. The combination of exhaustion, hunger and the extreme altitude made me so sick that I almost passed out in the cab [Quito is the second highest capital city in the world, second only to neighboring La P...

I arrived in Quito and met Tom from Ventura, CA. He has a wife and two children in Ecuador and offered to help me if I have any trouble in Quito. I also met an Ecuadorian women who lives in Fairfax that was very friendly. The Traveller's Inn hostel is great. It is very clean, spacious, affordable, has free internet, and is in a great barrio (La ...

Wie schon vor lang** Zeit beschlossen, bin ich fu** die Fiestas de Quito zurueckgekehrt. Nach dem ich die Nacht im Bus und den Klimaschock ei*****massen ueb**wunden hatte, bin ich in meine Spanischschule gegangen um ein paar Leute zu besuchen, vor allem Paulina. Sie war zwar nicht meine Lehr**in, dennoch habe ich mit ihr am meisten unt**nommen. ...

October 10th 2007 - Day 121 The next day we decided to head back to Quito as we really liked the place and there was plenty for us still to do there. We got the early morning bus and made it back for lunch time, checking back into the place we stayed on our first visit to the city. After showers, we headed out again, calling at a really nice pan...

Well here I go with what I believe will be one of the longest entries. You are forewarned. currently, outside of the internet cafe, I see 2 boys, a mother and her baby, and one grown man trying to make a few extra pennies, literally, because if you didnīt know, Ecuador does use the US Dollar. There is a young boy of about 11 years who likes scra...

I think I was too tired to be nervous...and I am most definitely the oldest student at the school. Maybe by 10 years even. Okay, not really, but definitely older than everyone else. We had placement exams and an interview to determine which students to group together. I felt really good about what I had retained from college and high school when...

Hello all, At the risk of Shannon completely dominating this blog (as she does me in our apartment) I thought that I better try, however feebly, to assert my presence on this site by telling you all a little adventure that I had last week (two weeks ago?) which began with a sweet chubby fellow, with glasses, trying to pick my pocket. I was stand...

we made the obligatory visit to the mitad del mundo (middle of the world) today, which is a 45 minute bus ride from quito. we were pretty disappointed at what the equator seemed to be at first: there was a large stone monument on the equator, which was surrounded by garish little buildings that housed small museums. luckily, we decided to check ...

Gulp, well decided to bite the bullet and move in with an Ecquadorian family for a week (the Spanish school organised it) to give my Spanish the kick up the backside it needs - hanging out with a load of English speaking travellers in the hostel getting hammered on free Cuba Libre and Coke just wasnīt doing it, the Spanish that is. They're a gre...