Quito Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Well, after a spa break for our wedding anniversary and a 2.5 week holiday to Canada, we were finally ready to start the grueling 6+ month trip. ;-) Some have been moaning that we haven´t posted a blog yet - and will probably moan more after this short and boring entry. Just to let you know that we have landed in Quito, Ecuador, and the first th...

Vcera byl cas vyrazit na prvni vetsi vylet. Misto brouzdat nekonecnymi ulickami Quita, proc nesednout na autobus a nevyrazit nekam za mesto. Tak jsme teda vyrazili. Po nekonecnem hledani autobusoveho nadrazi jsme ho nasli. Na nadrazi nas hned rozpoznali a uz nas hnali na autobus na ktery jsme chteli. Po kratke vymene spanelstiny a anglictiny jsm...

Howdy doody all, this entry was meant to be the very first but somehow I stuffed up and it is now 2 weeks later. well I am still in one piece, as is my mum and enjoying ourselves in Quito. I have had to change the way I travel and see places however compromise is something I am good at(LOL). The connecting flights went well, however mum was very...

www.volunteersecuador.com www.intiwarayassi.org I'm back to where I started some 14 months ago. Same city (Quito), same hostel (Posada del Maple), different room (15 if anyone is wondering). I've arrived with more memories, more bites and a mild concussion, so maybe I havent arived with all the memories. Estoy aqui donde comencé 14 mesas atras. ...

Well, there have a lot of ups and downs, but mostly ups. For dinner last night we weren´t sure what we were eating but it tasted good and was cheap. We drank blackberry juice and were afraid we´d get sick from unpurified water but both seem to be fine so far. Erin asked what ´´meriendas´´ were, and it turns out it is just a way of saying ´´set d...

So, where did we last leave you? Oh yes, we had just returned from the Galapagos Islands, a little queasier than when we had left, but much better off for our fantastic experience there together. It's funny, Quito really had started to feel something like 'home'. So comfortable, Allison and I decided we'd leave the comforts of our snug hostel in...

First impressions of Ecuador, as we crossed the border were of guinea pigs, spit roasted by the roadside - with expressions of avid terror (either that or of flying against the wind into a hailstorm). They look like rats without all that cute fur on and lose all their domestic appeal when skewered and crispy. These 'Cuiy' are in fact a local del...

Well I arrived in Quito last night with all flights and connections going a bit too smoothly...in short Delta did not load my luggage in either Atlanta or LA not sure, but I am picking it up tonight at the airport. Argh. It has been a less than desirable situation for me so far no warm jammies and all the comforts that I had packed. Woke up this...

We made it to Ecuador! Monday was long, but no problems. We left Kzoo at 8:25 in the morning and after stops in Detroit and Houston, arrived in Quito at around 10:20 that night. We managed to pack light enough not to have to check anything (but had to leave the knives at home), which made arrival in Quito that much better. We have been staying a...

.. and yet a new keyboard to get used to ;) So here we are, we finally arrived safe and well in Quito yesterday at 17.30 (23.30 French time), by which time we'd been up for 19 hours! Eugenio from the Spanish school was supposed to be waiting for us at the airport, but among the multicoloured balloons with "Bienvenido" written on them, we couldn'...