 | Another sucker is born........
2007-02-26, Banos, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | So here we are in Banos (means bath), and that´s what it´s famous for - its thermal baths. Oh, and the very active volcano right above the town.
It´s long been an ambition of mine to see an eruptin... |
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 | Oxygen required.... again
2007-02-24, Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | Today we took a day tour to have a look around the Cotopaxi National Park.
For those of you who like figures it´s 33,393 hectares!
Our Spanish lessons were put to good use as our driver/guide Va... |
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 | always coming back to quito...
2007-02-26, quito, Ecuador. By: quierodedo | | BUT FIRST
body boarding is awesome!! it was thom's idea to rent body boards on saturday, our last beach day. and it was soo fun. thom, new friend tommy, and i rented boards for 4 hours, from like ... |
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 | Goin to Colombia next week
2007-02-22, Tena, Ecuador. By: helanus | | Main news is that I´m off to Colombia next week- hav to leave the country an re-enter for visa issues, long story which involves Helen an Claire gettin very pissed off at i to i, but anyway all is rec... |
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| Fancy a stroll in the country?
2007-02-22, Chugchilan, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | The guide books say a nice 5 hour hike from Quilotoa to the village of Chugchilan. Sounds good we thought - let´s go. It was downhill for the first 3 hours (some of it descending an almost sheer canyo... |
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 | Bedsocks required!
2007-02-21, Quilotoa, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | We´ve come about 2 hours by bus (not for the faint-hearted or for those who don´t like heights!) from Latacunga, into the high Andes to a place called Quilotoa at 3800m above sea-level (oxygen optiona... |
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 | Cuenca, and finally dry!
2007-02-20, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | These are my last days in Cuenca. I leave on Friday (I’m actually going to play hooky from school…) to head down to the coast of Ecuador for a few days. It should be nice… some warm weather and the ... |
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 | Odour Eaters required?
2007-02-19, Latacunga, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | For the past week we have been in the Galapagos Islands. We decided not to do the norm and take a cruise, but we stayed on St Cristobal Island for the duration. We managed to see most of the wildlife ... |
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| Carnaval
2007-02-20, Tena, Ecuador. By: helanus | | So yesterday, we went to Mishuallí for the day, we being all the volunteers, plus Claire, Mely and Cora from Quito, then Pato, Fabio, Hugo (Iván´s brother who I´d only met the day b4 as he´s been in P... |
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 | Cuenca... and the pictures seem to work
2007-02-16, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | Well, I'm a little more successful this afternoon with the pictures. Here are some from my friends little housewarming party. The whole town must have known, since there was a huge fireworks display... |
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 | Cuenca... and 1/3 thru the trip
2007-02-15, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | Another week down…and more adventures to be had. Cuenca has been really good to me. And I think it will be sad to leave this town. This is the first time that I have traveled someplace and stayed fo... |
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| New volunteers
2007-02-07, Tena, Ecuador. By: helanus | | So we have new volunteers now, making us something like 9 or 10, ridiculous amount!! There´s-
Nick, 18 from Bath teaching Eng for 3 months
Emma, 18 from Surrey teaching Eng for a month and leaving a... |
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| back in quito.
2007-02-09, quito, Ecuador. By: quierodedo | | i haven´t updated in a bit. i wasn´t quite sure how to tell everyone i got robbed...and maybe doing it on this journal would be a little tacky. so many people know, for those of you who don´t: yeah... |
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 | We were robbed!
2007-02-10, Otavalo, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | For the past two days we´ve been in Otavalo, about 2 1/2 hours by bus, North of Quito. The main reason for coming here is to visit the saturday markets: animal, food and of course, the touristy, gifty... |
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 | A few more photos
2007-02-08, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | yesterday, after an hour and a half of trying to load the four photos, i gave up. today, though, i finally found a place with a decent connection. so here are a few more photos from the weekend, and... |
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| Cass an Iván´s birthday
2007-02-09, Tena, Ecuador. By: helanus | | So on Tuesday, it ws Cass an Iván´s birthdays and we all went out for the night. Eliza had the amazin idea of us all dressing up like animals, so me, Helen 2, Cass an Rachel came as tigers, Helen 3 as... |
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 | Cuenca... still
2007-02-07, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | All is well in Cuenca… and the spanish is… well still coming along. I’ve settled into a routine here in town. First, see what the protesters are up to first thing on the way to school (they’re back... |
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 | Back to school....
2007-02-03, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | Oh my God. Whose idea was this, Miss Mendham??? You´ve heard the expression "My brain hurts"???? So we had our first 4 hours out of 20 of Spanish lessons. We had a young University student teach us an... |
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 | Food at last
2007-02-02, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | After breakfast on the rooftop terrace (included in the price of GBP6.00 per person for a double en-suite!) we had a wander around the Old Town.
Most noticeable was the police presence at every cor... |
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| Feed me, feed me now!
2007-02-01, Quito, Ecuador. By: rossycaz | | So here we are in Quito, Ecuador after a seemingly never-ending flight, made all the worse by a distict lack of food! However, we landed in glorious sunshine instead of the forecasted thunderstorms (i... |
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| baños...life is not so rough.
2007-02-04, banos, Ecuador. By: quierodedo | | hmm what day is today? saturday. i arrived in baños two days ago with judith and tom, a dutch couple, and a canadian named jeremie. the bus ride was 3.5 hours and loud and bumpy and a wallet was almos... |
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| Last day at school.... bit bizarre really
2007-02-02, Tena, Ecuador. By: helanus | | So turned up at school today only to find classes cancelled as there ws some sort of a party the night before an everyone ws chuchaki (hungover). Saw a couple of children an a few stalls were still va... |
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 | Cuenca... one week in
2007-02-02, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess | | One week of spanish classes down. What in the world. Why am I not fluent yet? Oh well. I still have three weeks of intensive classes to go. That is the good news, and next week we move onto the p... |
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