Quito old town

July 21st 2007
So, we spent 3 days in Quito, familiarising ourselves with the altitude and sorting out our two weeks in Ecuador. Quito will be remembered for two smells - delicious fresh fruit and the not so delicious stink of traffic polution. We then headed out of Quito for a three day camping session in Cotapaxi national park. We hired a guide and his mate who looked after us well. We climbed up Ruminahui, a ... read more

South America » Ecuador

The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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Andy and Clare

Welcome to our blog. After a long and hard month off, we are almost ready to leave. We don't know how often we will update this blog, but we hope to add pictures every now and then to show you what we have been up to. Here is our current itinerary; mainly only flights at this stage and very general ideas on what we might be doing - but we will try and update it when we know more. Please come and meet us if you have the urge! 10th July - fly from Heathrow to Quito (Ecuador) Ecuador and Northern Peru 8th August - fly from Lima (Peru) to Cusco (Peru) Machu Picchu, the Amazon b... full info

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