The trail down to our cabin from the kitchen

Three days in Cloud Forest

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April 26th 2008
I can almost hear the choruses of ‘I told you so’ about my hopes of lasting four weeks in the forest with no electricity or hot water - surviving days consisting only of hard labour. After a rapidly ascending bus ride up into the Cloud Forest all I knew of my destination was that I should meet a man called Klever who would drive me to my home for the next four weeks. I would be spending my ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

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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