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  • Manatee Amazon Explorer - Day 2 1 September Wake Up Call: 6.00am Breakfast: 6.30am This is not a leisure cruise - pleasure yes but nature waits for no one and the best chances to see life in the rainforest is ea Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • El Oriente - Manatee Amazon Explorer - Day 1 31 August We met our tour guide, boat manager and fellow travellers at Quito domestic airport for the bumpy flight to Coca. The Manatee Amazon Explorer can provide accommodation for 30 people but in our case, there were only 8 Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • Tiestos Cafe and Restaurant 25 August Not long after Phil’s birthday we discovered a restaurant that would have made an excellent venue to celebrate his special day: Tiestos Café and Restaurant. Strolling past Calle Juan Jaramillo, we glanced at a somewhat ordinary door Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • Phil's Birthday 22 August The beauty of dedicated streets selling goods of a similar type was that on the rainy morning of Phil’s 40th birthday I was able to slip out into town as he slept and onto ’party supply’ street. How Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • Cuenca 18-28 August Cuenca is the third biggest city in Ecuador and its 417,000 inhabitants enjoy a similar spring-like climate to Quito (although Cuencanos would say their weather is more consistent than their Northern neighbours). Like Quito, Cuenca Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • Flying to Cuenca Officially, we’re in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Last night Phil went to bed with his regular face but woke up this morning with someone else’s. It is possible, in fact, that there is a bemused pug wandering the Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 20, 2009
  • Catchup This would be much easier if we kept this updated more often.. But alas, here goes... ECUADOR... We went there for 2 weeks.. I remember that. What else? Hmmm. Flew to Quito, but then headed off to the town of Otavalo Posted by funkzzz in The Americas 2009 | Sep 19, 2009
  • Baños About 3 hours after Quito on the Panamericana the vista takes a dramatic shift from dusty village after dusty village. The bus turns around a corner and suddenly the left of the road drops down and stretched before you are Posted by jtrundy in Feet on the ground | Head in the sky | Sep 18, 2009
  • La Vida Full Action '“Que alegria vivir Sientendose vivido!” (How happy to live, feeling alive!) -Pedro Salinas' As our exuberant guide in the jungle was fond of saying, life is not worth living unless it is pursued “full action.” Though Eduardo’s Posted by lhamman1 in Travels with Hammy | Sep 18, 2009
  • Otavalo Otavalo is high in the Andes about 2 hours north of Quito. It is a small but growing town famous for it´s mercado (market) and indigenous population. The Otavalenos women wear their traditional clothing - long wool skirts, white blouses Posted by jtrundy in Feet on the ground | Head in the sky | Sep 15, 2009
  • Paradise Found I just returned yesterday from an amazing 9 days on the Galapagos Islands. Maybe I'm just in the afterglow but I really feel that this is the most extraordinary place I have ever been. It is gorgeous, tranquil, eye-opening - Posted by jtrundy in Feet on the ground | Head in the sky | Sep 8, 2009
  • Otavalo 13 - 17 August People generally come to Otavalo (pronounced OtavAlo and not OtAvalo like I’ve been doing for the past three years) for two reasons: for the famous indigenous market (b Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 7, 2009
  • Deep into the Amazon After an overnight bus ride from the capital of Ecuador to the frontier town of Coca we arrived at the doorstep of the mighty Amazon Jungle, the largest in the world (sometimes referred to as the lungs of the earth). Posted by sarahnwill in Adventures In The Americas | Sep 6, 2009
  • Quito - Coda As I’ve mentioned, we passed through Quito whenever we returned from other destinations - from Otavalo, from Cuenca and from the Amazon. With each visit my fondness for the city grew. Quito may have a fairly daunting reputation Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Blame it on the Boogie 12 August At home, when Phil casually agreed to take a salsa lesson with me when we were in South America, I didn’t believe him. However, it appears that my husband is indeed a man of his word and on Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Quito continued 10 August Monday - a day of action. The day we find the travel agency that books for the Manatee Amazon Explorer and part with obscene amounts of money on our credit cards. A day of sorting out airline Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Centro Historico 9 August According to many, Sunday is an ideal day to visit the UNESCO Heritage Site of Quito’s Old Town when families converge on the plazas after their morning church services. In contrast to the ramshackle, bustling modernity of La Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Quito 7 August Occasionally, dark shadows would take the light out of the room in which you were sitting or street you were walking. Both international and domestic airports are smack bang in the middle of town and so the planes Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Ecuador 6 August Excerpt from New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs website - Travel Advisory: [i]Ecuador "There is extreme risk to your security in the north-eastern areas of Ecuador that border with Colombia and Peru because of the risk Posted by echo75 in Wanderlust | Sep 6, 2009
  • Quito I have been here for 3 days now. Technically 3 1/2, but I'm not counting that first day since I arrived around 1pm and was in bed by 4pm. I had a similar experience to Quito as I did to Posted by jtrundy in Feet on the ground | Head in the sky | Aug 30, 2009
  • The Jungle With my other entries from the jungle i have not described what the jungle is like at all. The weather is not quite what I expected. It´s not as hot as I thought it would be, generally under the canopy the Posted by CosTravel in Cos has gone travelling | Aug 29, 2009
  • More Jungle Hola Well I´m taken a break from the jungle this weekend and gone back to Quito with some of the other people at Jatun Sacha. Though I still loving the jungle it is so nice to have a hot shower and Posted by CosTravel in Cos has gone travelling | Aug 29, 2009
  • When Life Gives You Rotten Asparagus, Make Soup As we traveled home from el bosque nublado, the Cloud Forest, Heather identified a keen aspect of Ecuadorian culture: here, in a land of plentiful resources, the people are remarkably conscious of waste. In the forest, each plant and Posted by lhamman1 in Travels with Hammy | Aug 28, 2009
  • Where the Land Meets the Sky [quote]“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes Posted by lhamman1 in Travels with Hammy | Aug 19, 2009
  • Vilcabamba to Huaraz Vilcabamba My last stop in Ecuador was Vilcabamba, close to the border with Peru in the south. The inhabitants of the town and surrounding valley have a reputation for longevity. Strange then that in addition to 'Vilcagua' brand bottled water, t Posted by hughw in Travels in South America | Aug 21, 2009
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