Well here we are in Canoa, Ecuador, a small beach town mid way up the coast. We spent the last 5 days taking Spanish classes 4 hours a day while managing to fit in many swims, reading in the various hammocks, walks to town for real coffee and well just relaxing. It has been so nice to be in one place for a week, so needed. We spent 3 days in Puerto Lopez over New Years, which is another beach town south of Canoa. It was nice to be on the beach, lots of fireworks and firecrackers and burning, felt almost like burning man! In Ecuador and possibly other places in South America too the people make these effigies that they burn at midnight on the 31st. You can buy the heads or the bodies or
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