After I finished work for good, I decided it would be a good idea to head out to the coast... and so I did, along with my good friends and roommates, Miriam and Oliver. Miriam borrowed Maria Jose’s jeep for the week so we had some wheels of our very own to go wherever we pleased. We decided to go to Canoa first, which is our favorite beach in all of Ecuador. We chilled out in Canoa for a couple days and then went south to Manta which is a very important port city in Ecuador (where Ollie bought a [View Full Entry]

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I decided to travel up to the Imbabura province for a few days before I had to go to the jungle to work again. I left Thursday morning for Ibarra, which is the capital of the Imbabura province. “The White City” (Ibarra) lies at the foot of the Imbabura Volcano. It’s 115 km northeast of Quito, but it takes like 3 hours to get there from Quito (because of the roads and the mountains but mostly due to the fact that the bus stops for every single person even though the bus is completely full). I was super impressed when [View Full Entry]

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This vacation was off to a rough start when my Wenstar left us for Holland. We had a going away dinner party for her Monday night, sooo sad, but we still had fun, because how could you not have fun with Wenstar???? Impossible! Mads came to Quito before going to Brazil and then Denmark again. We lazied around for a couple days watching the OC and we went to “Mitad del Mundo”. I don’t exactly know how this works, but there are like 3 different museums who claim they all have the real equator line. Apparently the one we went [View Full Entry]

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Laguna Quilotoa is a gorgeous crater lake that was formed after the Volcano’s last eruption in 1797. This site is at like 4000m above sea level, so its freeeezzzzing cold (bring a lot of warm clothes)! Today, it is the home of a small community that gets to see this beauty everyday. When we got there Saturday afternoon after traveling from Quito to Latacunga to Zumbahua to (finally) Quilotoa, we found a hostel, got some food and went to see the beautiful lake which is like 2 seconds from the town. It was almost completely covered by fog since it [View Full Entry]

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Our fabulous adventure in the freezing cold Andes… Friday night (while still on a hang over from Thursday, by the way… totally fun night!) we took the bus from Quito to Riombamba to spend the night there in order to leave bright and early Saturday morning for our exciting adventure. And we did so, well I wasn’t so bright that early, actually kind of pissed that someone would actually wake me up at 8h30am. Honestly! haha But after breakfast and coffee everything was fine and we took the bus to the nearest spot to the volcano possible. We got dropped [View Full Entry]

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Tour Ecologico en la Amazonia !!  South America » Ecuador By Jeh Jeh May 14th 2007 JehanneThey sometimes organize jungle tours for the workers, so you can be sure that I was all over the situation. I reserved as soon as I found out there was one. It was a short but sweet trip on a Sunday afternoon. It was super nice outside and really worth it. We went boating and made our way to the Yuturi Lod [View Full Entry]

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Well, after 2 weeks of being stuck in the jungle, working, I really wanted to get out there and travel something fierce! I had heard many great things about the Southern Highlands and especially Cuenca and was super excited to go. I left SOLA Tuesday night, took a 12 hour bus right to Loja, which I think is a record, because when Darren used to live in Loja he said it would take like 17 hours to get to Quito....either he’s crazy or the bus driver was crazy... or both! Anyway ... this pretty much sums up my trip: Loja: [View Full Entry]

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Waiting at the airport for my dad was probably the longest wait of my life! Not only was his plane LATE, but I was obviously super excited and a little nervous for his arrival! I hadn’t seen anyone from back home in over 7 months, and to have my DAD come... wow! It was unreal! So when he finally arrived we went straight to the hostel. It was like Christmas and a HALF in March!! (Got tons of presents from my mommy!) THANKS MOM!!!!! He was only here for 7 days, so we wanted to make the best of it. [View Full Entry]

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For Carnival, Darren, Ian, Pierre, Emily and I decided to go to CANOA! Its an amazing beach in the Manabi province. We took a bus from Quito to San Vicente (8 hours) and from there got a ride in the back of a truck to Canoa (30 minutes), which is a little north of San Vicente. Canoa is, BY FAR, my favorite beach in Ecuador, mostly because everyone is so chilled out but also because the beach is gorgeous and big, there is a lot of beautiful sand and lets not forget the sweet ass rocky caves at the very [View Full Entry]

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Ok first things first, I did not give myself this nickname Jane of the Jungle, I swear haha everyone calls me Jane cuz they cant say my name and im in the jungle... sooo put two and two together... Anyways... I received the opportunity to work in the jungle! Yes, still teaching English and still for Wall Street! Wall Street has a contract with PetroEcuador, so I get to stay in a really effin high tech camp for two weeks, free, no cleaning, no cooking…. I don’t know about you guys, but for me… this is PARADISE! P.S. Using my two [View Full Entry]

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