Hotel Embassy Quito

... of chicha for $2.50.

As beautiful as Quito is, I can tell that all three of us are itching to get out to the wilderness. Today we will get some food and materials to make a camping stove. Tommorow we will load up our bags, say goodbye to Quito and then hop a bus to the Cotopaxi national park. We will spend the next few days backpacking through the park, testing our lung capacity hiking through the high andes. I will be sure to take some pictures ...

... price. Afterwards our aussie friend left us, he was going one day early to the Mama Negra festival today.

We strolled around took some more pictures and then returned briefly to the Secret Garden and then back to our apartment. At the Secret Garden we made sure our directions to Latacunga and were introduced to a backpacker who also wanted to go to the Mama Negra festival, so we invited her to join us tomorrow on the journey.

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I’m not arguing for the existence of any essential human nature, I’m arguing not to exclude that possibility. Admittedly I do have my spiritual, rather agnostic, convictions, but for now I just ...

Saturday today and the sun is shining and we have just had our first Ecuadorian icecream which cost all of $0.25, anything more than $2 for a meal is starting to feel like a luxury.

Landed safely on Wednesday, the view coming into Quito airport must be one of the best in the world, seeing a few volcanoes on the way in (thankfully not erupting!), the pilot receiving a rapturous round of applause for an amazingly smooth landing (apparently there have been ...

... to Taqueria Rosita...we got our fix of Mexican food though. Hopefully it will last a while)

Saturday (July 18th): We went to our first Ecuadorian futbol match! The main team in Ecuador is called Liga. We were invited to go by another student at the school. They played a smaller, lesser known team from a neighboring city, Cuenca. We were not anticipating that it would be much of a match but wanted to go anyway for the experience ...

We got up late this morning, Dad and I walked to the shop by ourselves and tried to buy some things, we had them written down in spaish but the guy couldnīt read. We finally got all the things and went back for breakfast which was really nice. After breakfast we went to the laundry mat, dropped off our clothes to be ...

... than in other parts of the world. .
So we have now stood on both equator lines, the second museum was really worthwhile, i would recommend it if I knew its name, I think it has an Indian sounding name. That evening we went out for a Thai meal in the Mariscal, there were so many restaurants to choose from, we were spoiled for choice. Thai food , in Ecuador, is not bad, its not amazing, just OK. We had lots of different things, my Pad thai was OK. Daniella's spring rolls and her satay ...

... the rest of the group to show up. two hours later, once it had started raining, we finally saw diego and his gf. unfortunately, his gf was not feeling well and he had been tending to her the whole time. but he had a plan b. he had a friend and his daughter with them. he told us to hike with his friend. long (long, long) story short we finally made it to the biggest waterfall i have ...

... Cuenca, like a 4 star worst = Hotel Internacional, Nasca, like a toilet, but at least it came with a seat, which the others in the group didnt get. Showers... best = Ollantaytambo, Tika Wasi Vale Hotel....it worked and was hot worst = Inka Trail, there wasnt one Bets hair = Karen, the pink hair straighteners worked a treat. Worst bed head = Luciano at any time of day Food... best = the Inka trail, amazing what they can cook in the ...