Clear waters...

10 days of seaborne adventure....

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June 22nd 2007
I'm back in Cuenca! But for the past 10 days we have been a-sailing across the waves of the pacific like the little explorers we are, complete with sea-sickness pills, heh, discovering all the galapagos islands (of course no one has ever been there before us....) and the strange *ahem* endemic creatures that live there. I would do a day by day account, but we all saw how that failed when I was d ... 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