wild horses on san cristobal

life back at the reserve

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June 14th 2008
so after a fun four days, we had to go back up to the reserve. something is going around the whole island because many of the volunteers, myself (mindy) included, and a lot of the town have been really sick this week. ryan seems to be immune to whatever it is. i think it was probably an infected shipment of food from the mainland, since so many people have similar symptoms on the island. so rya ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Galápagos

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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