Tena Stories


Visiting the Oriente

Visiting the Oriente Ecuador is divided into four different regions. The different regions are Coastal (Costa), Sierra (Andes Mountains) Oriente (Amazonia) and the Galapagos Islands. For example Manta, the city where we live, is located in the coastal region and Quito is located in the Sierra. After we completed this trip to the Amazonia we will onl...


4 days in the jungle

yeah i went to the jungle! it was so fun. awesome four days, three nights. the hostel didn´t really know what to do with me when i got back and they felt bad for not having a bed for me...so i went on the jungle trip that the secret garden arranges for HALF PRICE! yeah it´s a really good deal. so the day after thom left me, i left for the jungl...


Traveling really isn't easy.

Hey Everyone, Since the last time you heard from me. I was on my way to Ingapirca...Incan ruins near Cuenca. Well that was a journey. We left Loja that night to go to Cuenca to catch a bus from there to Ingapirca. However, we were a little early in our arrival to Cuenca. And we had rode 6hrs on a bus that had no heat and it was about 30deg...


5 AM

According to my watch on the table, its 515 in the morning and I cant sleep in tena. Laura nd I have made the pilgrimage to civilization on account of our bowels not quite being up to the task of regulating, ehem so to speak. I was trying really hard to dose off again after a runnnnn to the bathroom of the hostal, but I realized that too many thoughts...