Giant Tortoise

Galapagos

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August 14th 2009
Hay español abajo. I arrived in Quito, Ecuador on 24th of July after a long 26 hour bus journey from Bogota in Colombia. I was going to be studying in a language school the following week and had arranged a home stay where I went straightaway. I will write more about my time in Quito later on but after studying for a week I decided that I wanted to go to the Galapagos Islands. I hadn´t been pla ... 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