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Back in Quito again and after a couple of nights at our favorite place, we've moved to Folklore Hostel where the folks from Real Gap have placed us. Arrived back here around lunch time on Friday and spent the afternoon battling with useless Internet cafe's trying to sort out photos. We've managed to get them backed up to the ipod at least, but …
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Galapagos Island, Part 3
... This is one of the oldest islands in the Galapagos, estimated at about 5 million years. As a result, there has been much time for lava soil to form, holding moisture and providing a rich rooting medium for plants. As this is near the beginning of the wet season, the western side of the island is much greener than anything we had seen previously, almost tropical. As we traveled over the 3,300-foot summit of the ancient crater by bus, ...
Weekend - fin de semana
... Condor" tower and got a fantastic view of the city. To return home I took the taxi as not to walk it all again.
On Sunday I slept quite long and relaxed before I went to the park Carolina where I saw the exposition of hummingbirds scupltures in various colours. For lunch I ate Raviolis in a food court and afterwards I went to see the film "Larry Crowne" featuring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, which was ...
Epilogue, A Month In and a New Group
... things in zip Lock bags and money bags" will be a chapter on suitable tools for the trip with appropiate wine bottle opening implements.
But then panic over - just under 48 hours later I was back with a group of lovely people as I had met up with the new group for the Galapagos trip (and more importantly had got a corkscrew). This one is going to be very different to the Avenue of the Volcanoes as there are only 7 of us, and to be honest at the moment there ...
Quito Whirlwind Tour
... to take in a view of some of the surrounding volcanoes, including the enormous Cotopaxi (5897m). However luck was not on our side, the clouds covered all of them and we saw nothing. So it was back in the taxi and back through Quito traffic to the gondola. There was an express price to pay to skip the line, but since there was no line whatsoever, there was no need to pay that. The ride up was painfully slow, I have skied a lot so have been on many a gondola ...


