Hotel Sol De Oriente Internacional Guayaquil

... of the road, some with eateries, others not. The common denominator with several of them was that the houses (bamboo construction) were painted in really bright colours. As I passed the 2nd or 3rd I realised the common factor with all of these places was a large billboard advertising paint, with either brightly coloured tropical fish, or, parrots flying out of a tin of paint. My theory is that the paint company have panted the houses to go with their ...

... br><br>Flying internationally you are allowed 2 bags at 23kg (current at 2009) but domestically only one. So I was in line asking myself how this would go down. Then I started a conversation with the lady behind me. An older woman who appeared to be from the corporate world. Anyway, as she had no luggage to check in, she offered to talk to the checkin lady to get both my luggage through, no problems. But unbeknowns to me the LAN Lady used the Lady&#8217;s name not mine.<br ...

... bus to Chone. <br><br>I arrive in chone and take a taxi to the main terminal. It is a small city mostly economical supported by the center hub. I find my bus to guayquil to depart 7 hours into the night. I wait it out by talking with a few of the local kids while we teach each other our native tongues. I also come across something i never knew existed. GIANT GRASSHOPPERS!!! As some of you may might already know, grasshoppers are my ...

... the "paisa country" in Colombia (including Medelling, where Tristan is from) includes beans, rice, fried eggs, sausage, arepas (a type of corn flour biscuit), fried bananas, among other good stuff. We all danced a lot and ate really well, and by around 2am, we headed home... After waiting for the taxi for a good 15 or 20 minutes, we headed home and here we are... I'm very ready to go to sleep, as I have to wake up around 9am and it's about 3am now. Nite nite...

... of my drink without too much interaction. Unsuccessfully. Two different guys and a women all came up and started asking questions. None of them were very frightening, but i had no idea what to say. I answered questions as best as i thought possible, commented to all three about how i liked the Brahma and acted stupid, because I am. I left after two beers and a new since of accomplishment, one South American bar down, a few hundred to go. Hopefully future conversations go smoother.

we made it 27 hrs on a bus from lima to guayaquil -- the boarder crossing was uneventful.. thank god, though our bus took a right hand turn down a street and took out a bunch of power and phone lines.... some of the passangers were on the roof pushing them off the bus, while we backed away... we just sat and watched. A guy came out of his house as we drove off, and the driver threw him some cash.... i love South America

... The other reasons for the interesting ride had to do with sketchy guys and suitcases, and closed borders! We arrived at the Peruvian side of the border around 1:30. I was a little worried about the fact that I was 3 days over my visa. There were two officials that you had to see to get through the border. The first guy made sure you had all your papers in order. He told me that I was over my visa and would have to pay $1 a day to the next guy who was stamping the ...

... Malgre un certain charme qui s'en emane, ce quartier est tres surfait, plein de policiers, et ne semble avoir ete cree que pour les touristes. Trop en decalage avec la misere locale, je me lasse au bout de 2 heures et ne prendrai meme pas le temps de m'y arreter dejeuner comme je l'avais prevu. Je ne pense plus qu'a une chose, les Galapagos!!!

... amp; shopping malls) and more for the large family party of American holiday-makers that made the bus journey very amusing and at times a bit like watching a "National Lampoons" film .... very sorry to the many wonderful travellers that come from the US but there are some of your country-folk that do bring vividly to life an unfortunate stereotype. Guayaquil was nice enough for a day and probably actually a bit ...

... habituée à vivre sans gsm!! Et sans surveillance... ;-)<br>Birthe m'annonce que je pourrai loger chez son amie María Cristina à Quito, chic!<br><br>Le lendemain, je me lève tôt et Francis me conduit à l'aéroport pour prendre mon vol pour Galápagos. Au guichet, la dame voulait me faire payer mon ticket d'avion 367$. J'ai dû fortement insister pour avoir celui à 317$. Le premier vaut pour un séjour d'un an, le second pour 21 jours et ça me suffit. Altijd proberen hé.