picture perfect secret garden cotopaxi

Quito and Cotopaxi, Ecuador

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July 20th 2009
Hi all...beeen difficult to spend time at computer since coming here....but we are lovin it!! So from here on in, the posts are likely to be far and few between and very basic in content!! Quito - capital of ecuador * tarn and steve suffer a bit of altitude sickness - at 2800 metres - tingly fingers and feet, exhaustted and cant stop peeing! * stayed 2 nights....lovely hostel ... read more

South America » Ecuador

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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