Salinas Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We're back in the states and it's really chilly here! Juan is sick right now and I'm drinking some Airborne so hopefully I won't get sick too. We made it back on Thursday afternoon and then I went to work on Friday morning at 7am so I've been catching up on laundry and organizing the photos this weekend. On Christmas Day, a friend of ours invite...

Not at all like what we had expected when we had been told by several people how deserted it would be. Salinas had just been made a state in its own right and therefore seperate from Ecuadoren government rule - hence the reason why a large amount of Ecuadorians are now boycotting it. (We didn´t think it was particularly quiet, who knows how busy...

i arived in the coastal town of salinas afte a 3 hou bus ride, it was nice to take a bus in the day as i could see some of the scenery of ecuador... thepoblem with travelling on busses in S.america is that people can get off pretty much where they want.. so that leaves u wondering whee is the actual place u want to go.. normally i just stay on u...

The day has arrived! Tomorrow afternoon the good ship Shambhala will be back in the water after 2 years standing 'on the hard'. We have managed to get the engine working properly with the alternators and compressor for the fridge working as well. We've installed a water maker which uses reverse osmosis to turn sea water into pure water at about ...

I have arrived! We evuntually got in to Guayaquil in Ecuador and arrived at the boat after about 18 hours travel in total! We were knackered! I am out here with Dad and Georg, who is coming on the Pacific trip and has come out early to get the boat ready. The boat doesn't look too bad after being left for 2 years, but we do have a fair bit to do...

Not much going on, cheap food along the beach, nice and sunny, left next morning for Montenita.