Montanita

Montanita!

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February 5th 2010
So about 36 hours after I left London with an extremely short snooze in Lima, I arrived in Montanita! It's a small hippie surf town on the coast and I love it! I started my Spanish lessons about 3 weeks ago and at first I was just learning the alphabet so I thought Spanish was going to be easy. What a mistake that was! I think it's going to be of those things I may have to let beat m ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Montañita

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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