Category: Ecuador
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6 Points to Remember while Traveling.
1.) Find out the Truth for yourself. If a fellow traveler tells you about their experience visiting a place, hostel, excursion, or something to do, take it with an open mind and filtered lens. You will only know the truth once you experience it for yourself. Too many times someone had told me so and so…
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Loja to Lima
Travel, travel and more travel…by bus. From the jungle of Loja I took a bus at about 11:30pm to Piura for a 12 hour bus ride and a good $18 USD for a bus fare. It was easy and I slept the whole time, I was so confused when I woke up at 3 am…
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Caves of the Tayos, Macas
The Amazon Jungle: Full of energy, breathing life, and adventurously addicting. Instead of taking the more traveled pan-american highway to Peru I took the back road through the jungle and stoping in the small town of Macas for a little cave pitstop. Macas is a burning hot heated jungle town with hundreds of caves. The…
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Tena, Ecuador Mural – The Amazon!
Tena, Ecuador – The Jungle. Loud animal noises, neon yellow, green and brown luscious trees (bigger than you have seen in your whole life), pounding singing rain for days (literally), poison tree frogs (only if you eat them), unique jungle fungus (not on me, on the trees), hundreds of bug bits, turquoise translucent blue butterflies,…
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El Fin a Comuna de Rhiannon
How can you describe a place that captures your souls spirit and offers lessons, energy and experiances for your heart that words can not even describe? Community Rhiannon has proven to be a magical place for discovery, working and family in the midsts of smells of eucalyptus, incense, donkeys, compost, dogs, san pedro, yoga and whispering…
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The 10 hour Incan Hike – Ecuador
The Incan Hike / May 2013 Powerful Incan ancestor speaking mountains, glazed with fallen snow, high altitude breathe taking, sweetly hot and biting cold, mysterious navy blue laid lakes, gentle horse finding, exhausted leg climbing, 10 hour hiking kind of day! I walked with a friend from Malchungi to Otavalo in Ecuador for a whopping…
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Montantia, Ecuador
April 2013 It’s currently 9:30 am and I can still hear regaton. It’s the type of loud music with a deep base that sounds like the same song over and over. People here party all night and all day. Montanita is a small beach town on the coast of Ecuador with a infamous night…
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Rhiannon Community Farm
For the past 12 days and for the next 3 weeks I have and will be WWOOFing with a Farm about 1.5 hours from Quito, Ecuador at Rhiannon Community. Internet is scarce as I must walk 1.5 hours into town to get internet so if I have been absent know that each day I have…
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Baños, Ecuador
Mountains covered in layers of green, rivers freely flowing in and out of the town, and steep hikes with striking views of the active Tungurahua volcano. The Ecuadorian town is situated in the middle of playful mountains which makes for perfect adventures. Zip lining, canyoning, bridge jumping, paragliding, horse back riding, and more. It’s a…
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Finca Mono Verde – WWOOFing
Traveling can be exhausting. Sometimes you get in a rhythm and can start to take things for granted, or feel like you need to mix it up. I found the website World Wide Opportunities for Organic Farming – WWOOFing – (http://www.wwoof.org/) which is an amazing organization that connects travelers, farmers, professionals, all types of people…
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Canoa, Ecuador
Canoa is a small beach town with a handful of hostels, beachside restaurants, no ATM in town, and a popular surfing spot with caves on the beach for exploring. Many new business have started on the beaches. Literally shacks started popping up on the beach a year ago and all of them who sell food…
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Ecuador and the Dollar
In Ecuador they use a different currency. Can you guess what it is? The US dollar, that’s right. Since 2000 they have been using it. In the 1970’s when Ecuador stumbled upon oil it replaced raw exports such as bananas, cocoa, coffee and shrimp. The country became dependent on oil and in turn was at…
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Middle of the World – Quito, Ecuador
Quito, The second largest city in Ecuador. The city reminds me of a mix between Santa Marta Colombia and Cartagena Colombia. A little bit of a Spanish influence but with larger sidewalks, and more parks. I am not the biggest fan of cities, but Quito had a charm that made me love it. My first…
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