Crossing the Ecuador Colombia border in August 2018
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Quito, Otavalo & the Equator
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On our second and third visits to Quito we stayed in the old town, which is a lot quieter than the New Town, especially at night. The old town has largely kept most of its …
Continue readingGalápagos Islands – Part 2 Land Based Activities
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Before starting properly the second leg of our tour we visited the Chato Tortoise Reserve in the Highlands of Santa Cruz Island, which is a large farm where there are a large number of these …
Continue readingGalápagos Islands – Part 1 Sea Based Activities
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To maximise our experience of the Galápagos Islands we chose to do a mixture of sea based and land based activities. For the first four days we were on the MV Legend run by Go …
Continue readingQuito – Colonial and Inca Capital
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Our final destination on our overland journey was Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, set high in the Andes. We last visited Quito many years ago back in 1989 when it was quite a poor city gently decaying …
Continue readingBaños and the Equadorean Amazon – Forests and Jungle
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We crossed the Andes and entered the forests and jungles to the East of the Andes. The climate was significantly wetter than the high mountains and the deserts of Peru and the dry landscapes of …
Continue readingChugchilán – Quilotoa Loop
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Leaving Cuenca our journey took us through some incredibly fertile plains and mountain valleys. The banana plantations were on an industrial scale and full of fruit, in addition there were many other crops and livestock …
Continue readingCuenca – Panama Hats
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Our journey North continued into Ecuador and once across the border the landscape changed quite dramatically, gone were the dry deserts interspersed with oasis settlements of Northern Peru and a much greener landscape, with plenty …
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