Hotel Los Delfines Isla Colon

... the local hostels. We find that a lot of college kids are here combining work with vacation before they go back to the States to return to school.<br>A few days ago we went in search of an ice chest to store ice and drinks in our room since there are no refrigerators. We walked into a local hardware store and saw an igloo cooler. Just the ticket. But it was $75.00!!!!!! We wound up buying a pail with a lid for ...

Ahoy!<br><br>I've slowly been catching up with my news over the last week or so and I'm finally up to date! I've been in Quito for almost a week now, so I suppose I'll fill you in.<br><br>I left Popayan after a couple of days recuperating and enjoying being back with a few home comforts (hot showers, Coco Pops, endless juice stalls/shops, internet) at the ungodly hour of 5am to catch a bus to the border town of Ipiales. Ideally I would have undertaken this eight hour journey ...

... Brazil. So many different aspects. <br>After the Amazon we went to a place called Otavalo. On our way there we were going through mountains and came across so many landslides from the rain over the 3 days that we were in the Amazon. There was one REALLY bad landslide which actually held us up for 4 hours. Once they had cleared the road, it took ages for us to get through as the mud on the road was making all the trucks and buses slide and get bogged. It took Bea 3 attempts to get Swampy ...

... back to the secret garden after the tour as I had a Spanish lesson, but my teacher, Darwin, was no where to be found. After about ten minutes of waiting the chef David stumbled up the stairs. He was very drunk and told me that Darwin was waiting for me in my new classroom. I was intrigued. We walked up the round and around the corner about 100 metres to find Darwin sloshed, drinking beer in a tiny corner store. I was told I would be learning about the true Ecuadorian culture and customs ...

... enorme omweg moesten maken. De taxirit die ons gister een halfuur kostte duurde daarom nu ineens 2 uur, mede ook door de verkeerschaos die het weer had veroorzaakt!! Rinske was hierdoor nogal sjacherijnig omdat ze bang was de vlucht te missen, en ik kreeg volledig onterecht de schuld :) Op het vliegveld aangekomen bleek dat ook onder water te staan, allerlei mensen aan het vegen om het water weg te ...

... to eschew the conventional lifestyle and develop the community here in Ecuador. It started from just about nothing 6 months ago and is being developed in a vegetarian, permaculture and spiritual. <br><br>In my first 2 weeks we doubled the size of the greenhouse (encountering problem after problem with drainage for the sake of saving one sheet of plastic...), started constructing a chicken tractor, enlarged the guinea pig enclosure - amongst dozens of smaller projects and ...

... were dredy rastas but swarming with gringos of every different flavor.. i met up with some white gurl and we hit it off. my buddz bounced on me and i stayed till they kicked us out.. me and my big buddies from Louisiana / bat le rouge i call um batman three pretty cool dudes. we stumbled back to the hostel barly making it back by 3am

... thread tiny glass beads onto fishing line. He also plays the harmonica, much to my delight. Me gusta mucha la harmonica! We've had some good dances to his bouncy tunes around the hospital. A much welcome interval to the usually sombre stillness. Rafaella, from Costa Rica, speaks perfect English and complains about how she doesn't know her own birthday because they stole her papers, money and possessions. But she has a wicked sense of humour and we confide in her about ...

... pack cover I'd seen at Kathmandu a week earlier. Squeezing into the cab together, humid and musty, in my mind I was leafing through my list of possessions hoping that there was nothing in my pack that would die from the rain that was surely seeping into it by now. And so began our week-plus, of rain. rain. rain. and more rain. We looked like a bunch of sombre refugees or criminals, huddled with fellow travellers into a cramped concrete room with a low ceiling and chipped ...

... during this part of our trip. The owner of Eclypse, Elena, is a Peruvian woman who has been telling me all about Lima and where I should go while I´m living there next year. Her family is from Spain and oddly enough she was in Pamplona the exact same day the boys and I were there last summer for the running of the bulls. (Es un mundo pequeno.) Yesterday, Liv and I sat and talked with a Cuban jewelry maker on the ...