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Thu, 6 Sep 2012 | By keren | Views [288]
Hola! Im on another bus and this one is going from Tena to Agua Santa and my gosh are the roads bendy. I don't think the bus has steered straight for more than 2 metres. I am actually so happily satisfied and full of acheivement right now. This ... Read more >
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 | By keren | Views [372]
Day 1/2ish So it has started and I can certainly title this travelling. I am on my second day of planes and flights and man do I feel strange. Airports can have so many different energies depending on time but also massively on country. I had ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 | By pmok | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 1 Sep 2012 | By pmok | Views [6016]
How much fun can be packed in three weeks in Ecuador? Enough to experience volcanoes and islands, urban and rural, ocean and mountain, and chills and warmth. Yet there still isn't enough time for the Amazon! What an amazing country it is. I traveled ... Read more >
Tags: boobies, cuenca, ecuador, galapagos, iguana, lonesome george, otavalo, papallacta, sea lion, white water rafting
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 | By tempolibre | Views [421] | Comments [1]
Ipiales, frontière Colombie-Equateur, 2 aout, 11h Voilà, cette fois c'est sur,
on laisse la Colombie et l'Albergue Azul derrière nous. La frontière est
blindée et on va devoir attendre près de 3h pour voir les cabines du
poste de douane s'offrir ... Read more >
Tags: carnet de voyage
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 | By tempolibre | Photo Gallery
Quelques photos de notre visite éclair en Equateur
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Sat, 11 Aug 2012 | By pmok | Views [2152]
I'm not entirely surprised by how quickly 2 months flew by in Puerto Lopez, but it still takes me by surprise when time came for me to pack up. One of the things I enjoyed the most about this project, besides the work itself, is living in Puerto Lopez.... Read more >
Tags: bolon, calamari, corviche, empanada, jellyfish, miss list, puerto lopez, quaker, shark, turtle
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 | By beckandphil | Photo Gallery
Cotopaxi, Quilotoa Loop, Otavalo, Mindo
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Thu, 2 Aug 2012 | By beckandphil | Views [805]
Cotapaxi and the Quilotoa Loop After arriving into Ecuador, we realised that our time was short and we still had to see Ecuador! The schedule for Ecuador was based on the fact that we had to be in Otavalo for the Saturday market, reputedly the biggest ... Read more >
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 | By pmok | Views [1455]
I've been eager to visit Isla de la Plata since arriving in Puerto Lopez. I first learned about the island from Marine Megafauna Foundation, the org I worked with in Mozambique; they've been traveling there to tag and study the manta ray population ... Read more >
Tags: galapagos, isla de la plata, mora mora, scuba dive, sun fish, turtle capture
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 | By pmok | Views [788]
Scuba diving isn't part of the "responsibilities" at my current volunteer project in Puerto Lopez, so I would need to book diving excursions on my own. Luckily, the other two volunteers and the local coordinator, C, are all certified scuba ... Read more >
Tags: butterfly fish, isla ahorcados, isla salango, moray eel, puerto lopez, scorpion fish, scuba dive, surgeon, turtle, weight belt
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 | By pmok | Views [1281]
Today was a day of extreme dichotomy, two polar opposites with a similar goal, yet the road could not be more different. The day started like most days with tiburones at the fish market. Two volunteers had the early shift from 6:30 am to 7:30 am, ... Read more >
Tags: fishing, guayaquil, humpback whale, playita, profile, senor sushi, shark man, stingray, tourism, university
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 | By mstep | Photo Gallery
Otavalo to Vilcabamba
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Wed, 4 Jul 2012 | By pmok | Views [1246]
If you read my previous story "My Grimmest Day in Tofo", you knew how heart wrenching and difficult it was to witness first hand the finning of sharks right on the beach. I would never forget the image of piles of sharks and rays at the ... Read more >
Tags: alopias pelagicus, equilibrio azul, fish market, hammerhead, pelagic thresher, shark fin, sphyrna zygaena
Wed, 4 Jul 2012 | By ckiernan1231 | Views [382]
Yesterday I had orientation for my volunteer program in the morning. I met one of the other volunteers, Alicia, who is staying in the same house as me. Alicia is from Canada and is really sweet. Irma took us on the 20 minute hike to the office where ... Read more >
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