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Week 2, Still in Quito!

I am writing to you from an amazing altitude of 9,350 feet. My heart has managed to keep the blood flowing and I wholeheartedly beleive that I have acclimized to the altidude. Quito truly is a picturesque city. It is nesstled in between various dormant and some active (it´s been like 300 years...

permalink written by  apollo8583 on August 26, 2009 from Quito, Ecuador
from the travel blog: South America and Back?



Visiting the town of Banos:also known as "bathrooms"

A man with a short,trimmed mustache leads you toward the back of the hostel. All you have is a pair of trunks on, or for you females the newest and cutest bikini. In your right hand is a towel. In your left hand is a cerveca, extra chilled. Ricardo and I happened to be the subjects of this...

permalink written by  kipmaddog on August 24, 2009 from Banos, Ecuador
from the travel blog: adventures from down south



rappin some beats in a high andean town in ecudor

Thirty hours of sitting in the last two back seats in the bus. The motor is right under your ass and your wedges in a child like seat right next to the bus bathroom, smelling whatever anyone had for dinner, while trying to shut your eyes, fighting off the claustrophobia of the high-chair size...

permalink written by  kipmaddog on August 23, 2009 from Otavalo, Ecuador
from the travel blog: adventures from down south



The Homestay!

The homestay was a little awkward from day one, but this was an obvious, expected, and even welcomed transgression from the norm. It was a monday and I had just finished my first day of school with my teacher, Mercedes. Lunchbox and locker combination in hand I was introduced to my adoptive...

permalink written by  apollo8583 on August 22, 2009 from Quito, Ecuador
from the travel blog: South America and Back?



Mitad Del Mundo

Our first week in Ecuador has been QUITO an experience. Our spanish grows by leaps and bounds. We are constantly confronted by words from the dizzying array of signs, the pushy shopkeepers, and not to mention the unrelenting inn keepers. It is a long ardous process that in all reality will take...

permalink written by  apollo8583 on August 13, 2009 from Quito, Ecuador
from the travel blog: South America and Back?



Bus Buddies

Each bus ride is never the same. One of my latest bus rides was particularily memorable. I have a cup of coffee and rum waiting for me upstairs in my hostel, so I'll try to make this quick! I took the cheapest bus I could find from Lima to Tacna - a 17 hour bus ride. Sometimes I'm too...

permalink written by  ryanmyers on August 5, 2009 from Quito, Ecuador
from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical



Back to Guayaquil

Bus

permalink written by  wherearesteveandlisa on July 3, 2009 from Guayaquil, Ecuador
from the travel blog: wherearesteveandlisa's Travel Blog



Finished with Galapagos today

Just got back from the Galapagos Islands today, we are beat. Just want to try and set this travel blog up and go to sleep, will provide more detail in the morning. Let´s dream of sealions, turtles and blue footed boobies oh my!

permalink written by  ecuabella on July 2, 2009 from Quito, Ecuador
from the travel blog: ecuabella's Travel Blog



Bus to Montañita

Bus to Montañita

permalink written by  wherearesteveandlisa on June 23, 2009 from Montanita, Ecuador
from the travel blog: wherearesteveandlisa's Travel Blog



Baños

Bus to Baños

permalink written by  wherearesteveandlisa on June 20, 2009 from Banos, Ecuador
from the travel blog: wherearesteveandlisa's Travel Blog



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