Adventures from around the world...

Otavalo Market...

eyeownatravel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:07:00 GMT

A trip to Otavalo can offer much more than just the market itself. The first stop on our tour, was a town called Calderon. This is located about 6 miles north of Quito and is most famous for its bread dough dolls. These dolls were originally created for All Souls Day.Click here to read the full article.

Kapawi: Paving the way for Preservation!

eyeownatravel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:03:00 GMT

The Ecuadorian rainforest represents just two percent of the whole basin, yet this is home to one-third of all the bird species in the entire Amazon region, and 10 percent of all the tree species on earth!...Click here to read the full article.

WINA JAI

eyeownatravel — Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:41:00 GMT

Visiting the Achuar community deep in the Amazon, is an unforgettable experience.

We were invited by our Achuar guide Celestino to visit the community where he lived, we later discovered the house we went to was actually his brothers and the children that surrounded him were his own. Click here to read the full article.

The Journey to Kapawi…

eyeownatravel — Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:34:00 GMT

The trip to reach Kapawi begins in Quito at 6am. The journey takes you past many volcanoes and the guide explains some of the history associated with these along the way, Cotopaxi for us was unfortunatley covered in a cloud so this spectacle we missed. Click here to read the full article.

Jungle Prep…

eyeownatravel — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:50:00 GMT

On Friday I shall be embarking on a 4 day trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest!

Where am I going exactly?

Kapawi Lodge

My destination: the Kapawi Ecolodge. This is located deep in the almost two million acres of the Achuar people’s traditional territory in the Amazon, near the border between Ecuador and Peru...Click to read the full article

Quito – The Colonial side…

eyeownatravel — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:42:00 GMT

Plaza de Independencia (the main square) is the perfect place to start a tour of historical Quito. Radiating from this core are assorted whitewashed buildings bordering narrow cobblestone streets and lovely parks. The shop signs in the surrounding streets are all small and written in similar styles to preserve the colonial feel and prevent it looking like a metropolis of consumerism...Click to read the full article

The Middle of the World?

eyeownatravel — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:37:00 GMT

There seems to be a constant debate on where the actual equator in Ecuador is located, the two popular tourist sites to date are: La Mitdad del Mundo (the middle of the world) and Inti-Nan (road of the sun)... Click to read the full article