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Puerto Lopez to Quito

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July 17th 2008
Day 81 After lots of hanging around we finally wandered down to the beach with our group and jumped on a little boat. After about and hour we were in and around the whale site and keeping an eagle eye. Almmost straight away we found two humpback whales out to play. The males are around 12 metres long and the females 14 metres. Pretty massive. We got to see pretty much every stereotypical view of ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Puerto López

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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