Trip: South America travels
There are [66] stories from my trip: South America travels
ECUADOR | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2006 | Views [2447]
Decided to spend the night in Riobamba after Baños, before heading to Cuenca. Nice town. Hot shower with free fruity shampoo. Lots of families, mostly indigenous folks. no gringos! Best Pizza I ate so far in Ecuador! I walked the whole town in a ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2006 | Views [1006]
From Tena, we headed 4 hours (5 with the delay in the tunnel) to Baños, so named because of the natural hot springs in town... Everyone in Quito loves this town. It´s easy to see why. It´s very charming, colorful, and everyone is on vacation. Happy ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2006 | Photo Gallery
Banos, the town everyone loves to love
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 1 Feb 2006 | Photo Gallery
magical and very wet
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ECUADOR | Monday, 30 Jan 2006 | Views [2851] | Comments [2]
Well, this is the second attempt to compose this entry (first time the computer crashed before I was able to save), so it´s going to be abbreviated... --finally leave Tena, show up at the Terminal 7am, no joke 5 minutes later we are on a direct bus ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 24 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Monday, 23 Jan 2006 | Views [1217] | Comments [1]
Well, we were going to leave Saturday, then Sunday... now we finally get our act together to leave this morning, and we are informed that the buses are on on strike. Less pollution on the roads for one day, hurray.... and we get yet another day of bumming ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 18 Jan 2006 | Views [1535] | Comments [2]
Well after being back in Quito for a few days already, it´s already difficult to put into words the past week at sea, touring around the Galapagos with my dad, and his girlfriend Mary. It was such a visual and visceral experience that I will probably ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
ECUADOR | Monday, 16 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery
a week in paradise
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 4 Jan 2006 | Views [1347] | Comments [3]
Still recuperating from new years week at the beach. I left last Sunday night, taking the all night, 8 hour bus ride from Quito to Guayaquil (the largest city in ecuador) with my spanish teacher, Annabell, and my friend Atiya (lives in Germany, but she ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Wednesday, 4 Jan 2006 | Photo Gallery
sand sand sand
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ECUADOR | Saturday, 24 Dec 2005 | Views [8691]
Oswaldo Guayasamin is an ecuadorian painter born in 1919, an d since passed away a few years ago. A hidden gem in Quito is his foundation which was started by him and his children about 30 years ago. as you can see in the photos, his work is quite ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Saturday, 24 Dec 2005 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Friday, 23 Dec 2005 | Views [2446]
Last night I went to the championship game, the ecuador national team (red) versus barcelona (yellow). There are about 6 teams in the country from different regions. The Barcelona team is from the coast, and the national team is from all over, ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
ECUADOR | Friday, 23 Dec 2005 | Photo Gallery
final game, ecuador national teams wins!
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 20 Dec 2005 | Views [4202] | Comments [2]
The first question I was asked when I told the director at the school that I was going to Isinlivi, was Where is that? and second, ¨How do you pronounce that? well the first I can now answer.. the second still remains unclear exactly. I decide to ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 20 Dec 2005 | Photo Gallery
el medio de nada
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ECUADOR | Friday, 16 Dec 2005 | Views [1430] | Comments [1]
So on my second day of classes, there is a chico talking to the director as Im leaving and he doesnt speak much spanish, so the director asks me to help make sense of what he is inquiring about. Turns out this guy, Martin, from Canada spent a month ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Friday, 16 Dec 2005 | Views [887]
in no particular order: ...its hard to remember not to flush the toilet paper.. there is usually always a waste basket nearby, most systems in central-south america cant handle the paper. ... alt 6 4 is the easist way to get the @ when sending email, ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 | Photo Gallery
Sunday in Quito
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