San Jorge Eco Lodge Quito

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Km 4 Cotocollao-Nono Road Quito, Ecuador, 00000, 2-256-5964

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San Jorge in Quito

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Quito, Ecuador caldrich
No ranch in ecuador

We arrived at the Quito airport, which is in the middle of a bunch of mountains. The elevation is 10,000 feet so many of us got headaches. We got a bus to San Jorge where we stayed for 2 days before traveling into the mountains and jungles of Tena. We drank an ecuadorian beer called "Pilsner". It was only 1 dollar for a 32 ounce. So cheap! The first day we went to the equator which was actually a fake equator with shops, restaurants and a huge monument around it. So then we went to the real e...

Quito, Ecuador rerunkb
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Journey to the Center of the World . . . Twice

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We walked out the entrance of the park and headed off down the road towards the real middle of the world and the museum of equatorial science. It turns out that 12 years ago the U.S military used GPS and calculated the actual equator. The French it turns out were off by 200m, so this secondary museum was built and it is filled with middle school science experiments and traditional FFs (Fun ...

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador bkrabel
Danīs entry on our adventures in the basillica

... we asked to take a picture of her climbing a ladder so that we could capture the moment. She consented, and insisted that we take a series of beauty shots with different combinations of people, situations, and hair positioning. She was into it. We wanted to get down. Badly.
Fast forward to the other tower, the bell tower on the opposite side of the cathedral (which we reached by crossing a shaky wooden bridge over the ...

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador juc1228
Day 34 (Evan)

... even suggested seeing a nearby crater, which was vast and breathtaking - wispy clouds danced around the edges, revealing mountain tops opposite our vantage point.

Two days later, Karen picked us up again in her trusty Honda CRV and this time we ventured north to Otavalo, an Indian city from where our hostel got its name. Karen tactfully maneuvered the mountainous roads to deliver us at a colorful Indian craft market. I purchased a bracelet ...

Quito, Ecuador ewbarr
Last (new) capital on this trip

... that it wasnt right and that we had to take another bus to get where we needed to go! At that point we were so upset about the whole thing that we just jumped into a taxi which brought us there within 15 minutes - so the whole ordeal took almost 3 hours and should have only taken about 45 min from where our hostel was *grrrr* Luckily it was only 3 hours from there to Baņos and we were just so glad when we finally got there at 3pm instead of 12pm...

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador jeffandlisa
Avoiding Pickpockets

... to the Queen Ann’s hostel. Just down the road from our hostel was a great little square but as we drove past it we saw the most disturbing thing. A policeman on motorcycle harassing two women by driving right at them and when they scattered he’d turn around and accelerate at them again. They were outraged and scared and it was totally bizarre, I was kind of thrown by that. By the time we were getting out of our cab they had ...

Otavalo, Ecuador claraz8
Camouflaging my husband Andes style

... is definitely applicable here. But the kids enjoyed riding in the back. Zoe and I, being more conservative, rode in the cabin.

As we left the city behind us we encountered mountains covered in terraced farming that made the mountain look like it was covered with a patchwork quilt. At San Pablo Lake, we stopped at a couple of haciendas and a lakeside 5 star hotel with llamas feeding on a grassy knowl. At another ...

Otavalo, Ecuador donnadowell
A night with the natives

... There were thousands of people all dressed up in their traditional dress. They all danced in circles wih instruments to this very repeditive tune. I had a corn cob on a stick covered in cheese stuff and also a grape kabab stick thing covered in toffee, so good! This was also the leather town so after 2 years of looking I finally found not one but two leather satchels which are amazing quality and I got them both for $80. I'm wrapped. Lorna also got a ...

Otavalo, Ecuador nickmask
Costing us a packet (Well a parcel anyway)

... we got to a shop on the main square which was owned by a local sculptor. Here the carvings were fantastic - very striking and original. Unfortunately everything was a little too big to take home - Paul really wanted an 8 foot circular carving but I put my foot down and said no! (I think the US $1000 price tag also put him off!). We then headed to nearby Cotacachi to view the leather shops - what a find! Should you ever need a jacket for an 1980 ...

Otavalo, Ecuador caroline_little
Quito!! The end of that saga!

... puffing by the time I hit the registration office (of course, itīs up 1 flight of stairs!). I rolled into the sack, thinking, WOW, I made it! I didn't especially like the looks of Quito, so I was up at 10AM, and rolled back to the bus station, for Tulcan, a city on the frontera, which has hotels with real TV. I wanted to watch the election results on CNN! Hopefully!

Quito, Ecuador jathomaz
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