Hotel Casino Calypsso
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4 million Ecuadorians and I.Living with the locals
... and most populated city in Ecuador inhabiting around 4 million people. So I picked up my second hand black market phone, and called Christina the mother. I managed to make sense, and managed to understand as well that it would be her pleasure to host me. So I hopped on the bus from Montanita, said goodbye to the agentinian mates of mine, and decided we would travel together in peru after I return from the Galapagos. At the bus station I had no chance. Not being able ...
Quayaquil Ecuador
... everyone was dancing in their seats and singing along, some would get up and dance but everyone was dancing, they really love to dance here, very happy people.
So the people are very friendly, they are nice, soft, placid, for the most part. We have seen just a few dodgey looking people as you do anyweher but you don’t engage with them.
A few nights there and then we got the bus to montanita, a party town by the ...
The darker side of Oz
I've been postponing travel plans for various reasons for the last two weeks. I reached a boiling point in the degree of frustration I've been feeling recently about the complete lack of work. Ironically I was reading the first few pages of "La paz es el camino/Peace is the way" by Deepak Chopra (in Spanish, because it was the only book in my boss's office that wasn't some sort of medical dictionary) when this happened.
And as I stormed away from the clinic I ...
Passing through Guayaquil
... in the overhead bin. I sat under it and kept an eye on it best I could for the entire trip. But, it was slightly behind me. During the 3.5 hour bus ride, someone was able to take my laptop, an iPod, and two cameras. Fortunately, they were all old equipment and not worth much. I had encrypted my data using Ubuntu Linux on a ext-4 partition. No problem there. But unfortunately, one of my cameras still had a memory card with all our pictures. Now, they were gone. ...
Guayaquil
... of us and ended the stay by being shouted at in the street by a man who pointed at us to his friends and made a throat slitting motion across his neck to us from which point his friends followed us until we ran back into the hotel! So you can see why my description if this place as horrible is justified! We just had one night in guayaguil before flying the next day to the Galapagos. Luckily my friend Laura, who we were visiting on the Galapagos, had ...
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