Ecuador

Country N°26 - May 2014

Day 9 – Cuenca

Day 9 – Today i finally got to get up late 11 am ! and met our group to go visit the city, we went to the place where they make the panama hats which arent made in panama but in ecuador and walked around the city to buy some food and to buy some […]

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Day 8 – Cuenca

Day 8 today we were supposed to take a bus early to go to cuenca but instead decided to stay in banos until 2 pm to go waterafting in the river which was really good ! , i was in the best team as our boat didnt capsize and went faster ! after the waterafting […]

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Day 7 – Banos

Day 7 today we woke up early to go rent buggys, which we drove around banos for an hour in search of the first place we were going to the ziplining, a zipline measuring 1 km long ! which was amazing but the rain falling down made us all soaked especially on thezipline. after the […]

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Day 6 – Banos

Day 6 today we woke up early from the rainforest to get ready and have breakfast before going to the bus station to take our bus to banos our next stop, to get to the bus station we had to fit 10 people on the back of a truck with a sort of little tent […]

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Day 5 – Amazon Jungle Homestay

Day 5 – today we went to a local school which welcomes 11 students to the community to learn more about the school and how the kids are taught, we offered them gifts we had bought at the supermarket at Quito, gifts like toilet paper, a football, and pencils, among many other things. After the […]

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Day 4 – Amazon Jungle Homestay

Day 4 – I woke up at 6:30 today by the chickens and the dogs living under our little hut, and got ready to go to the kitchen and make food, we prepare onions, hot dogs, tomatoes and bananas for our breakfast and cooked this hot dog tomato onion dish with soy sauce which consisted […]

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Day 3 – Amazon Jungle Homestay

Day 3 – we woke up super early to go to breakfast at 6:30 , before leaving the hotel at 7 to take a private bus to the quito bus station , where we took a bus to tena a city on the edge of the jungle. on the bus (unfortunately) since i was the […]

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Day 2 – Quito

Day 2 – After a good night’s sleep I finally woke up at 7 Ecuadorian time, I decided to be lazy and stay in my bedroom until 10.  Once I was ready I met up with Sarah and we decided to go visit the “Mitad del Mundo” or the middle of the earth in English, […]

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Day 1 – Flight into Quito

Day 1 – I arrived at the airport ready for a sleepless night and somehow managed to get myself stuck in the bathroom for 15 min because the door was broken I was luckily freed by repairmen who luckily stumbled upon me after being stuck there for 15 mins. … great start to the trip: […]

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