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Esteban... QUITO!
... panzazo de re-encuentro querido! Graciaaaaas.
Ahora… Panamá es RARA! O por lo menos eso nos pareció a nosotros… Al fin nos tocaba salir del aeropuerto que constantemente anuncia los “Vuelos de Copa” vuelta a “Casa” y esta vez, íbamos a pisar la ciudad que sobrevolamos ya varias veces y nos quedábamos boquiabiertos de la edificación costera, alta y nueva! ...
South America 2012
... of the experience. The guy up the front was catching it on video, so we made the decision to purchase that to relive the experience, considering we didn't capture it ourselves in stills. After we were thoroughly soaked we set off downstream to a rendezvous with a truck to take us back up to the start point. The trip down was also brilliant, any person that experienced the jet boat ride in NZ on the shot over river, will understand what it is like to take a ride similar, except ...
Ecuador around and about - sierras to sea
... del Mundo” –
“middle of the world”. But the enterprising locals had pay booths at its car
park entrance which we avoided; we ended up stopping on the road, just around
the corner, when the GPS registered N00° 00.000’ and took a photo for old
times’ sake. The last time we had done that was in east Africa on our Cape-Cape
trip and how different that had been
– an old, rusty sign on the side of the road with a couple of ...
Quito and Mitad del Mundo
... effect. In the "southern" hemisphere, only again a meter away, she did the same.
Firstly, we were not on the real equator. Secondly, Corilios force has no effect on such small waters like a sink or bathtub. And thirdly, its rediculous to believe that sink moved a meter here or there can show any differency duet he huge area of the globe. Either way, most turists enjoyed it, and we, all those who had doubts about that, let them believe. They paid the ...
Beware of the kind strangers!
... Quito from 4100m, and the surrounding snow capped volcanoes, it´s a spectacular sight! Quito is much much bigger than I had imagined and split into the old town and new town. I am staying in the new part which is a very modern & trendy city full of bars, restaurants and night clubs, and is the complete opposite to Cusco so was a bit of a culture shock after spending 4 weeks there. We were also warned that it´s ...