Quilotoa crater in the morning

Having spent the night on the edge of a volcanic crater, gives a new urgency to the question "Did the Earth move for you?"

If we are so near the equator, why is it so damn cold!

March 25th 2008
On to the final country of the trip then and into Ecuador the hard way. From Trujillo, it was 3 separate bus trips, totalling 24 hours, to get the city of Cuenca on the Central highlands route through Ecuador. Unfortunately, bus comfort deterioates into Ecuador so it was no comfortable bus seats to sleep on for us. Instead pretty hard seats, that didn´t recline much, accompanied by that much love ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Centre » Quilotoa

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

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