Hotel Ambassador Quito

9 de Octubre y Colon Quito, Ecuador

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Doing time at the Secret Garden

A travel blog entry by alexrosales

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... I bought my Roman candle and held it all night, during dinner, when socializing with everyone and even when I peed lol We decide to head to the bar area of Quito around 11:30, of course I take my Roman candle with me. We walk across a huge park on the way and hangout with the locals there for the countdown. We didn’t make it to the bars, which was a good thing. Hangout with the locals doing their traditions was pretty ...

Quito - high altitude city living ...again!

A travel blog entry by griffs-on-tour

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... it was a really unsatisfying day.


The following day we tried in the morning to sort out flights online and thought we had managed it but then later I got an email saying my bank had refused the transaction. In the afternoon we got picked up by Cara’s charming friend Maria who she had worked with back in Kentucky. Maria dances flamenco at various events here and her family, as well as running a private school, are seriously ...

Vacation from my Vacation

A travel blog entry by alexrosales

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... them. While reading in front of the fireplace is when I realized that this is probably the most relaxed I have been my entire trip. I stop reading and look around me for a second. I noticed a few great things such as: I am in a room with people from about 8 different countries and we are all doing similar trips and for similar reasons, the view from the living room of the mountains and country land is simply amazing, there is no electricity, computers, or ...

From Sao Paulo to Quito

A travel blog entry by lizsandell

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... whilst the rest of the group was interetsed in it all and probably did have a longer attention span than me– the most important consideration of the day for most people seemed to be about when we were going to have lunch. Then from chatting to people I also realised that there was a pretty similar outlook throughout the group on it all. One of, ‘that’s all very nice – but now can we go and see some mountains please’ – I knew we all going to get on ...

Volcanoes and more volcanoes!

A travel blog entry by maz360

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... and I did a zipline down the valley but chickened out of the bridge jump. Banos is an adventure lover's dream, there is loads to do and its only $3.50 for the 4 hour bus journey from Quito.

On Wednesday I had a trip booked to he second highest active volcano in the world, the dramatic snow capped Cotopaxi. The drive there was beautiful, through the Valley of the Volcanoes - Ecuador has about 80 volcanoes! Ecuador is a brilliant place if you like ...