Blogs from Ecuador, South America - page 631

Just a quickie, and don't we love 'em?..things moving fast and a 6am flight mañana to Galapagos...too good to pass up and I'll be away for 8 days...or longer if the boat sinks, hurricanes, passionate affairs, pissed and fall over or all of the above..... and Peru was saved at the last, on the last night in Mancora I met a couple of people who could count past 10 without taking off their sandals... Kia at the Fluid Bar was hospitable, friendly, put in extra chile and gave me hope that Peru has promise!..... And Mancora was a pretty nice place to hang out. Then off to Ecuador, last run thru' the cop gauntlet, successful!, then the usual confused, confusing, sign-less battery of officials, customs, immigrasi etc...then good roads, friendly people, a noticeable improvement on the ... read more

Well, tomorrow I leave for the states. Feel free to stay tuned while I travel to NJ/NYC, then to IL, then CO for my next job with Mountain Plovers! I leave you with a bunch of pictures.... read more

Hola amigos!! Well it's a logistical nightmare here in Ecuador at the moment!! The government are about to go into talks to sign a free trade agreement (TLC) with the US and the indigenous people are up in arms. They believe that they will lose their cultural heritage and will suffer even more financially as they'll be unable to compete. Hence they burn tyres or form human blocades to close the roads...as in MOST of the roads so you can't get anywhere! There has also been a recent protest about the rise in the price of cooking gas and the status of workers for a petroleum company. Leaving Quito last Monday morning my bus arrived just as they were finishing a mud blockade across the main Panamerican highway fortunately there was a bus waiting at the ... read more

This week has been lots of work but not a whole lot going on. On Sunday Kyle and I were in Baños but we didn´t get to go horseback riding like we had planned instead we went on the chiva again. It was totally worth it! The waterfalls were so amazing! We saw 7 waterfalls and 3 rivers. At one of the stops we saw people doing what they call bridge jumping, but it looked just like bungee jumping. one of the girls on our chiva tried it and when she got back on i asked her what she thought. her response i´m still unsure of, she either said delicioso or peligroso. either way kyle and i are going to do it next time we go. our hostal was really nice; we got free internet and ... read more

This weekend I am in Baños. For those of you who know spanish, yes it means bathrooms! It is named that because of the thermal baths that are everywhere. The town is at the bottom of a volcano so that´s how they are heated. The town is beautifu! Tonight Kyle and I are going to see the volcano on a trolley and tomorrow we are going horseback riding to see the waterfalls. This week has been a little hard because we had a squirrel monkey and a cappuchin monkey die. I cried my eyes out when I saw the squirrel monkey die. It was so human like. The cappuchin that died was Kyle´s favorite, the same one that pulled my hair. On a lighter note I got my nose pierced and we took a cappuchin monkey, ... read more