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Thu, 7 Oct 2010 | By abbygalegazica | 
Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
“Adrenaline rushes through your veins and your eyes are locked on an exclusive, once in a lifetime shot. You observe every detail carefully, inhaling the majestic beauty that stands in front of your eyes. You raise your camera to your eye very slowly, ...
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Wed, 6 Oct 2010 | By soly | Photo Gallery
Traveling to the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Wed, 6 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1130]
"Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both at once?" I've read this quote before by Bertrand ... Read more >
Tags: amazon, ecuador, travel documentary scholarship
Tue, 5 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1164]
Delphin was his name. He was the truest form of man living side by side with nature, and he and his family were our hosts for this trip in the middle of the jungle. Apart from the genuine kindness this man and his family showed us, he opened my ... Read more >
Tags: amazon, ecuador, jungle, travel documentary scholarship
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1280]
Time to leave civilization, or at least the modern one we know, and head towards the jungle. Our little team has grown a little bigger with 2 new members. Simon Monk, the founder of WORLD NOMADS and Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of GAP Adventures. ... Read more >
Tags: amazon, ecuador, travel documentary scholarship
Sun, 3 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1096]
Finally landed in Quito, Ecuador after a 44 hour journey! But it was worth it :) Coming from Egypt it was such a refreshing sensation seeing all this greenery. And then going through the old city it felt like I went back in time. As if nothing has ... Read more >
Tags: documentary, ecuador, egypt, scholarship
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [4043]
Dealing
with waste (trash, recycling, composting) is one of the biggest issues that
cities and destinations have to deal with in their pursuit of sustainable tourism. Generally
speaking, it's rare to find recycling and composting infrastructure ... Read more >
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [3201] | Comments [1]
So we didn’t get off the bus in Puyo and ended up in Baños, which, to those of you untrained in the Spanish language, means bathroom or toilet! Ryan made a joke that you can pee anywhere you like here as the whole place is a toilet. I refrained ... Read more >
Tags: banos, equator, guayaquil, guinea pigs, mitad del mundo
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 | By andreajwilson | Photo Gallery
Ballenas en Puerto Lopez, Ecuador
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Thu, 26 Aug 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [3024]
Having passed up the opportunity for various reasons to go the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, in Ecuador we finally decided to venture into one of the defining
features of the South American Continent. The Amazon Basin comprises ... Read more >
Tags: amazon basin, caiman, cuyabeno reserve, frogs, puyo, samona lodge, snakes, tarantulas, tena
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 | By chelsearebecca | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 18 Aug 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [2709] | Comments [4]
So we finally made the decision to go to the Galapagos Islands, having found a great last minute deal giving us a 40% discount on a 8 day cruise aboard a first-class yacht
called the Cachalote, meaning Sperm Whale in Spanish. It can hold up to ... Read more >
Tags: blue footed boobies, galapagos islands, giant tortoises, iguanas, pacific green turtles, penguins, sea lions
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [2665] | Comments [1]
We arrived at the Ecuador border town of Macara where, with the heat and humidity, we could have been fooled in to thinking that we had somehow been transported back to South
East Asia. Despite the sticky bus journey the change in weather was something ... Read more >
Tags: colonial towns, cuenca, loja, panama hats, quito
Wed, 4 Aug 2010 | By janeb | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
This past June I traveled to Ecuador landing in Quito and then flew on to visit the islands of the Galapagos. I really didn't know what to expect beforehand but I loved the entire experience: The setting of Quito, the people, the markets, the scenery, ...
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