Blogs from South, Ecuador, South America - page 5

Some of these photo's are from the bus tour that my grandparents and I took and some are from walking around in Al Centro. Hope you enjoy!... read more

Distance driven today: 194 miles / 312 km Cumulative distance driven: 9,842 miles / 15,839 km Today’s trip: Riobamba to Machala, Ecuador We started riding around 9:30 in the morning and immediately we felt that it was cold enough that we needed to dress much warmer. On top of that, it had started raining as we were leaving the city of Riobamba. We stopped and put on our full rain gear, warm long sleeves shirts, and had to dig out the winter riding gloves from the bottom of our duffel bags. I hadn’t used my winter gloves since riding through Montana back in early June and for a moment it felt weird having them on. The road heading westbound towards the Pacific coast took us initially over a pass over the Andes at almost 4.000m / ... read more

Most of the basic and intermediate schools here are a great source for street art. It may not be as nice as most, but it still tells a story. The walls are first painted white then each class gets a section of the wall to paint with whatever they want. These pictures are only one side of the property.... read more

Today we went to Ingapirca to see the ruins. Braulio invited us to go with him, Chanel and Mandy to celebrate his birthday. Ingapirca is a town in Cañar Province, Ecuador which is named after an Inca archeological site just outside the town. These are the largest known Inca ruins in Ecuador. The most significant building is the Temple of the Sun, an elliptically shaped building constructed around a large rock. The building is constructed in the Inca way without mortar in most of the complex. The stones were carefully chiseled and fashioned to fit together perfectly. The Temple of the Sun was positioned so that on the solstices, at exactly the right time of day, sunlight would fall through the center of the doorway of the small chamber at the top of the temple. Most ... read more

Almost every November in the States, since we gave our lives to Christ, we prepared shoe boxes filled with various items for children in third world countries that were collected by our church and then sent to Samaritan’s Purse. Samaritan's Purse is an evangelical Christian humanitarian organization that provides aid to people in physical need as a key part of Christian missionary work. The organization’s president is Franklin Graham, son of Christian evangelist Billy Graham. The name of the organization is based on the New Testament Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which Jesus uses a parable to teach people one form of the Golden Rule; "love your neighbor as yourself". The day was led by a young couple, who are both clinical psychologists, with a heart for children. They are the clown and the girl ... read more