Iguanas and Friends

Galapagos and Goodbye

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January 26th 2012
All the festivities of the recent months winding down, after New Year's we started to prepare for the next chapter of our journey in Peru. Our friend Robert and the Evans family from California Kitchen threw us a wonderful farewell dinner, and there was a fun, if rainy, street festival for Epiphany. While sorry to say goodbye to our friends and Cuenca, we felt ready to move on. But first, we h ... read more

South America » Ecuador » South » Cuenca

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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