Hi there, My first ten days in Ecuador has really flown by, and here I am sitting in the internet cafe in Posada de Daniel, Canoa (on Ecuador´s pacific coast), writing my blog. So much has happened, I don´t know where to begin, so in the traditional way, I will start at the beginning. I left my hostal in Quito last Friday, a day later than expected as Juan Pablo, La Hesperia´s Director, needed to get his car fixed before going back to the reserve. So on Thursday I just hung out, listened to music and watched a DVD (bringing the laptop was a great idea!). I heard a lot of protests outside on the streets at night, part of a series of road blockages in the sierra by the indigenous people in Ecuador because of
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