Hotel Ocean Blue Manta

... art and the like in our refined manner. After a little while the girls came running out pretending to be annoyed with us, but once they had got money from us they happily disappeared back inside. When we later went back in Lucy was playing imaginary tennis, ping-pong and football on the dancefloor and Alex was telling off an Equadorian man for not dancing properly and trying to correct his errant moves. In between they were swigging from a 2L bottle of clear liquid ...

... us. There were about 20 dogs at the place and the deal is they have tents already set up with mattresses in them. We checked one of them out - the mattress soaking wet (dog ****?) and we said, we would rather use our own tent and camp right on the beach thank you very much...<br><br>Sp we had a great seafood dinner and headed back up the coast to find a perfect campspot in a remote fishing village and it was well worth the drive<br>

... this and the birds. so, i don´t know what is up with the birds in montañita but they are all white, little, and like to sleep, perfectly spaced apart, on the power lines. seriously, you could measure it, and there are hundreds of them...a-mazing!<br><br>next we walked across the bridge to ´the rad party´ - nothing was happening...freakin party news is really bad here. so on the way back, we stopped by a bar with a pool table and played for ...

... the afternoon if the tide is right. You go out into the water and he picks out waves that he thinks you can get up on, then yells and pushes you till you try to stand up, fail miserably and nosedive into a giant bowl of sand. He'll always tell you that you were really close to riding it out which I find amusing. I haven't gotten my surfer merit badge quite yet, but I can now say that I've stood up on a surf board and ridden waves. This helps with the ...

... of the machette. Sabina found a really cool skin of a boa which looked to be about 10ft long. She was kinda scared. Jamie said that it wouldn´t hurt anyone anyway, even if it was alive. Ryan kept on telling me that the best thing to do was not to think about what may be under your feet as your chopping through jungle, I take his advise and whack away. By the end of the morning the park looks much better. Hard work hasn´t felt that good in a while.

... set sail for our next port of call in two days time at Callao, Lima, last year when we had called at exactly the same ports it had only taken 24 hours rather than the 48 hours required this time. The evening entertainment was a film starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane called 'Nights in Rodanthe', and by the time this had finished it was 9.45pm so well past bed time for most of the passengers on board ship!

... kam er dann sogar noch. Doch etwa drei Dörfer weiter, noch nicht einmal in der Hälfte zum Ziel gab der Bus auf einmal sehr spezielle Geräusche von sich, begann zu ruckeln und blieb schliesslich stehen. Nichts geht mehr, Tod des Lotterbuses. Okay, dann halt doch warten auf den anderen Bus. Zum Glück fahren zu dieser Zeit beide Linien diese Strecke. Irgendwann kam ich sogar heil in Manta an, war im Internet, ass zu Mittag, machte meine ...

... for $5. We thought it was a long ride and figured $5 was a good deal. Turns out it was only 15 minutes and the bus would have only been $0.35 but we had been traveling for 2 days by then so I think it was a worthwhile splurge! Arrived in Canoa to find the hostel we had heard was great was all full. But, the one next door was slightly cheaper and seemed very nice. So, we are staying at Olmito, right on the ocean. I can hear the waves crashing from my bed! So wonderful!

... it and throw a cow on the camp fire. Soup will be served with every meal and the juice would be a weird dark green colour; no-one being able to accurately guess its contents. There would be a general consensus that the rice had become boring, and the girl with the dread locks will question her veganess. A commercial for KFC will be scowled at, and then the television shut down because the vegetarian meals are not producing a sufficient level of potent human waste to power the ...

... I got on the board yesterday and was practicing putting it on and feeling the kite with the board and all...was suppose to get finally out of the water on board today...and there was no wind...what ashame...have one more day tomorrow for my last chance before continuing to Montanita...but it is a lot of fun...I actually think that there is really not that much to do i Manta unless you study spanish or kitesurf.. Cant ...