The Boys Soccer Game

Two Weeks of Volcanoes

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February 20th 2011
It certainly has been a long time since I have updated this and a lot of cool things have been seen, mainly volcanoes. Last weekend a group of us decided to hike up Pichincha, the volcano that resides over Quito itself. We are living at around 9,400 feet above sea level so I've been slowly adjusting to that. Well it turns out that Pichincha is about 5-6,000 feet higher than we are now, and let me ... 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