Blogs from Ecuador, South America - page 656

It’s 5 am and still dark. As usual I have managed to procrastinate sufficiently on writing this blog that it’s the day before we leave Quito and its got to be now or never. Never mind, as work colleagues will attest, dawn has always been a good time for me to be creative and /or productive dahlings, ever since getting up at this time to write overdue English essays on what I did over the summer or copy pictures from the Encyclopaedia Britannica for geography projects due at 9am that day. So here goes… Leaving Vilcabamba was tough and we had several crap days afterward struggling with travelling, buses, crummy hotels, bad weather and not enough people to talk to. But we withstood the storm (literally) and got to Baños - a quaint little town who’s ... read more

Being a four-hour-a-day student takes up more time than you'd think. You might think it would take fur hours a day, leaving twenty free. But somehow it's not like that. There's homework, of course , but also when you're engaged from 11-3, it's hard to do much either before or after. So I haven't. I only made it into Quito Old Town for the first time today. I went to a church. There are lots of them here. And just now I tried to go to a Basilica, but it was closed. So I had an ice-cream instead. I bought it from a street vendor. I'm so confident of my stomach these days that I've started buying food from street vendors, which had been the last bastion of my nutrional virtue. Maybe it will all catch ... read more

Detta har vi varit med om idag!! den 20 juli. Seglade under natten till San Christobal. Tidig vackning for frukost kl 06:00. Sedan bar det ivag med buss tvars over on till La Galapaguera..dar jatteskoldpaddorna finns (Landskoldpaddorna). Premiar for dessa vackra stora bjassar! Filmade o fotade en hel del. Det var en upplevelse! Det var ocksa den sista upptacksfarden for resan pa Galapagos. Flog hem till Quito pa eftermiddagen efte lang vantan pa flygplatsen. Har precis borjat packa om vara vaskor infor morgondagens flyg hemat till Svea!! Vi langtar hem nu faktiskt, och vi ar mycket nojda med allt vackert som vi fatt uppleva under dessa 7 veckor pa resande fot. Reser i morgon den 21 juli kl 09:00. Mellanlandar i Bonaire (Vastindien), sedan kommer vi till Amsterdam kl 05:00 nagonting, sen plan hemat vid 09:30 ... read more

OJ OJ OJ vad livet e gott! Annu en fantastisk dag. Vi seglade till Bacha Beach, pa Santa Cruz Island. En av de vackraste! Snorkling i korallklart och turkost vatten! Pa eftermiddagen vidare till Plaza. Vandring pa South Plaza dar vi for forsta gangen motte land Iguanas..och manga fina faglar. Koloni av Sjolejon i alla storlekar. Kvallarna var ljumma och avslappnade. Vi njot av god mat och trevliga medpassagerare. Somnade sott i var hytt runt 9-tiden.zzzz trotta och lyckliga. Kram!... read more

We were instructed to meet up at the pier at 5:30 am with everything we'd need for the day. Our boat was scheduled to leave the dock at 6am to start the 3+ hour drive to Espanola. Espanola is considered one of the best visitor sites in the Galapagos and we were looking forward to seeing more wildlife. We arrived at Punta Suarez at around 9:30 am. Before disembarking, we had breakfast on board the boat (jam and cheese sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, tea or coffee). This was fine since we were all hungry, but none of us could have eaten anything on the ride over without feeling sick (very rocky). Then at about 10:30 am, after the cruise boat groups departed the island and moved on to their next destinations, we got to go onto the ... read more