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Thu, 6 Jun 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1094]
Right out of the shoot ...meaning from sea level - we climbed up a mountain attempting the 4100m (13500 and some f) pass to get to Cuenca. Feeling strong the first day - climbing over the clouds up to 2000m. Riding through the clouds wasn't a whole ... Read more >
Thu, 6 Jun 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [966]
So, how do you feel, when you actually had some idea how a whole month of feeling something special because it is your b'day month turns out to be the way you wanted it and beyond?
It was warm, I got to swim in the ocean and a pool, lay ... Read more >
Thu, 6 Jun 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1258]
Equator!!! (May 17th in Ecuator)
This is a monumental moment to pass the middle of the earth - at least in my book!
It was the day before my b'day, but in reality it was my b'day because I was born in Germany and the seven hours difference ... Read more >
Thu, 30 May 2013 | By goran | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am High-School sport teacher, but i found myself gravitating toward documentary photography, which i find to be my main aspiration and ambition At the beginning of 2011 i joined a volunteer humanitarian mission with an aid association 'Kolajna Ljubavi', ...
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013
Tue, 28 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1140]
That fruit looked good,
but it wasn't!!
Maybe it was some sort of pumpkin.....it had no taste and that nice orange color and the juicy look is totally misleading.
At this point I had it and I went on line to find out what it is:... Read more >
Sun, 26 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [850]
We haven't seen the sun for a while, the sky is grey and foggy and it drizzles at times. The road leads inland sometimes and gets hilly, the forest jungly and thick and then again we hit the coast - sky still grey and foggy, but the road is flat and ... Read more >
Fri, 24 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1067]
The road led us inland for a while and it got hot and humid. The more direct rout was along the beach, but we had given up to find a boat across the bay. Considering the many ghostly and deserted places, the roads are in very good shape. Once ... Read more >
Fri, 24 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [821]
No boat to Cojimies - the river looked way too dry. The local police was confident we could find a small "launcha" so we placed ourselves at the muddy banks of the river and waited. The day was young and soon we had attracted our usual crowd - this time ... Read more >
Fri, 24 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [2163]
.......on a dirt side road - hot and dusty but beautiful ....right through that jungle listening to Howler Monkeys and exotic birds. Every once in a while I feel like pinching myself - stepping out watching myself riding along as if this is normal. And ... Read more >
Fri, 24 May 2013 | By katiesikora | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I grew up in front of the camera as a photographer's daughter, but slowly learned how much more you can find out about a person by looking at the photos they have taken rather than the photos they are in.
I am a recent graduate of the University of ...
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013
Wed, 22 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1007]
So, the couple invited us to have dinner with a fresh catch of a big fish and when they arrived at the camp site that fish WAS BIG. It was an adult cat fish. I don't know much about fish, so I hope this description leads you to understand the size of ... Read more >
Sun, 19 May 2013 | By happywanderer | Views [714]
We arrived in to Quito's new airport shortly after 9pm . The runway had appeared out of nowhere in the dark and clouds, landing high in the mountains. The new airport is about an hour from the city, whilst the old airport is actually in the city.... Read more >
Tags: cotopaxi, ecuador, otavalo, quito
Wed, 15 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [879]
Here at Playa Escondido. For 25 years in the hands of a very creative and active, environmentally active/conscious canadian woman.
Bummer, we won't get to meet her because she is in Quito right now with her sick dog at the vet - not back ... Read more >
Tue, 14 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [895] | Comments [1]
The next day started cloudy and rainy and after a hearty breakfast from our smiling hosts we set out without hesitation. To me - after about two hours of riding - it started feeling like I was cycling under water it was hard to breath with all that ... Read more >
Sun, 12 May 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [897]
Back in the flats, the lowlands and the rainforest -a completely different scene. The heat and the humidity is ok by me for now.
We had been riding through some pretty poor villages occupied by Afro- Ecuadorians - it is even rare to spot a latino ... Read more >
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