Embassy Hotel Quito
President Wilson E8-22 & Avenida 6 De Diciembre Quito, Ecuador
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Old Man Pichincha
My heart was pounding like a jackhammer. We were only at 4500m and I was walking as slowly as I possibly thought I could but it felt like my heart was going to explode out the top of my head. I had finally made it down to Ecuador a mere 13 hours earlier and now here I was on my first (what should have been my second) acclimatization hike - Guagua ( …
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Galapagos Islands, Part III
We spent our last afternoon excursion on Fernandina. For nearly 2 hours, we hiked near the shoreline, over lava rocks on which were literally thousands of Galapagos Marine Iguanas. We had to watch our every step, lest we would accidentally step on one of them. In addition, there were countless Sally crabs, numerous sea lions and green sea turtles.
On our last day we awoke in the Santa ...
Weekend - fin de semana
... Julia Roberts, que estuvo divertida.
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This weekend I didn't have enough energy to go far away from Quito, therefore I took it a bit more easier. On Saturday I visited the quarter Mariscal with the market, walked through the park El Ejido and went to the Basilica del Voto Nacional. It has a neo-Gothic style and is the largest neogothic temple in America. This time I climbed the bell tower and ...
Epilogue, A Month In and a New Group
... when lost in the outback, you can use it to help you survive for months on the end with just a few berries and some mushrooms like Bear Grylls. You can even use it to amputate your arm as it’s stuck under a 12 tonne boulder after 127 hours stuck in a canyon somewhere in Utah. But has it got a corkscrew on it !!!! No !!! So an addition to my book, "Gap years for people who are bordering on being anal, have obviously created a spreadsheet for the trip and with a perchant ...
Quito Whirlwind Tour
... in a taxi by 9am. Things started off well after we struck up a deal with the taxi driver to take us to the Virgen de Quito (a classic Madonna statue standing on top of the El Panecillo hill), wait for us to have a look at it and then take us to the sight seeing gondola station. We soon realised that traffic in Quito was a bit of a nightmare. The statue itself was nice enough, but nothing special after Christ the Redeemer in Rio. The other reason to head up ...
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