Imperio Del Sol Hotel Ibarra

... out quite well, although evenings after dinner were mostly spent watching DVDs on the computer.<br><br>Now, Cotacachi.........what an absolutely lovely, charming small town. The main part of town is about 10 blocks square, more or less, with two plazas, one large and one small. El Arbolito was located on the small plaza where the Otavalenos set up their tents daily to sell crafts to the tourists. There's a small Catholic church there, as well as assorted statues, an ...

So after my last update I´m now travelling with my next ´family´ for Ecuador etc - seven of us altogether including the tour guide, a mixture of American, Canadian, Aussie, English and not forgetting the Welsh! A<br>nice size and so far a nice mix. Our next stop was Papallachta (that´s really<br>bad spelling I think, I haven´t got my trip notes with me), a tiny,<br>tiny, hot springs town about 2 hours outside Quito, further into the<br ...

... to be more pictures of men, goodlooking men, and today we are glad to be able to respond to these needs while, at the same time, have the tires on the bikes fixed correctly. For this reason, we decided to have the tires checked once again, a second time, for good measure. We hope the results go noticed. <br><br>Now with the tire repaired we headed towards Quito, about 100 miles south through ...

... we were, in Otavalo, which is known to be a huge market town. Where do we go next? &#8220;Let&#8217;s follow the white couple,&#8221; Ania said. I thought that was a brilliant idea. Pretty soon, we lost that couple, but we were in luck, as we found another white couple. (We knew that tourists always flock together). Later on, we had to name these couples. (Okay, &#8220;White Couple #1&#8230;White Couple #2&#8230;&#8221;). Hey, they were pretty helpful, as we ...

... no go but still beautiful! There was a lovely family who ran the lodge and looked after us, they had a cute little 3 year old girl who spoke to us in spanish constantly. We went for a couple of hikes and had amazing lunch there. At dinner time we were the only people there so they set us up our table infront of the fire in the lounge, it couldn,t have been more picturesque. It was so cold ...

... too raging, actually) and spent an evening at a laguna reserve observing wild singing frogs and 5 inch cockroaches (eek!). Our final treat in Mindo, thanks to an emailed introduction by Ethan, was to spend the night in a gorgeous biological station in the cloud forest. We hiked to waterfalls, went midnight frog spotting, and had great meals and conversations with Sonia ...

... company who were travelling around South America in a Mercedes truck. There were 16 backpackers in the group, mostly British, lead by a couple of Kiwis. It is a cheap way to travel the world but I think being stuck in a truck for 6 months with the same people would be a bit tiresome. It's bad enough being stuck in a marriage for over 40 years. The striking thing about Otavalo is that the indigenous people ...

... and this dude speeds up. That was it, we t**k the d*g *ut. He l**ked like a ch*w ch*w, he's yelping und** the car, and we are dragging him d*wn the m*untain. The guy is speeding up and hitting the brakes like he's trying t* shake him l**se, like it was an ann*yance. Ten sec*nds lat**, they changed the subject and are talking ab*ut s*mething else. I said "didn't we just kill a d*g, n* *ne cares?" They all say d*n't w*rry, if it was dead, it c*uldn't yell, s* he ...

... exports screwing the rest of the world at our benifit. "Please come, were ******* in the wind and we need some direction!!!" But I knew he was fated to spend the rest of the world here. Chasing down other foreign prospects, scraping by, selling his stories.... if he´s lucky, giving the odd lecture on how big the hole were digging for oursleves will be in 20 years. He held our culture and way of life in such high esteem. We could do no wrong. We were a peace loving ...

After more than two months of living and traveling Maya and I have had seen and done many different things across the country. While we obviously didn´t get the chance to see everything that we wanted because of time constraints, from what we did see, heard great things about but didn´t have time to go or went to and felt like it was over-hyped, here is a list of my personal favorite places to see and things to do in hopes of steering other fellow travelers to some of the ...