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A Day at the Beach - Guayaquil, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:27:19 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Guayaquil, Ecuador With our newfound automotive freedom, our family decided to head to the beach today. Up until nine months ago, most people in Guayaquil headed for the beach would head to a town called "Salinas", just over two hours away on the very Western point of Ecuador, bordering the Pacific Ocean. Salinas is a very developed beach...

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Heading south for lakes & volcanoes - Latacunga, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:32:44 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Latacunga, Ecuador Got up early on Thursday to leave Quito , catching a bus for the relatively short two hour hop down the Pan Americana highway to Latacunga - nice to be on a rather short bus ride for a change instead of the recent marathons in Colombia and the bus was pretty comfortable aswell as an added bonus. Been dorming for many weeks and I´m back travelling...

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Devils Nose train ride & gorgeous Cuenca!! - Alausi, Ecuador, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:30:59 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Alausi, Ecuador, Ecuador July 4th - Took the amazing ride down the Devil´s nose and back again. I was in the carriage on the way down and on the roof for the return trip. Lots of fun!! In the afternoon I took the bus on the bumpy and dirty road to Cuenca. It is Ecuador´s third largest city and rivals the beauty of Quito. ...

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Saquisili - Saquisili, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:40:00 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Saquisili, Ecuador July 2nd - Today I took the short journey to the nearby famous Saqusili Markets, where indigenous folk from al over the highlands of Ecuador come to trade, particularly: cows, bulls, sheep, goats, chickens and of course guinea pigs! There is also a handicrafts market from where I bought a 100% pure Llama wool (that´s what he...

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Stradling the equator - Quito, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:29:13 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador For our day back in Quito after the Galapagos we decided to do a touristy thing and go out to the equator line, which they proudly call Mitad del Monde (middle of the world). Any bus going vaguely in that vicinity had the words emblazoned on the front of the bus in huge silver letters. Pre-Inca people got pretty close to getting the equator...

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Humpback whale watching ends our 9-month trip - Puerto Lopez, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:59:51 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Puerto Lopez, Ecuador For our last stop in Ecuador and in fact Latin America, we went to Puerto Lopez, four hours up the coast from Guayaquil where tours go to Isla del Plata which is known as the poor-man's Galapagos. But the reason we went there was for the humpback whales that can be seen from June till September. They come up from the South so they...

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Sunny Banos - Banos, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:14:33 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Banos, Ecuador Moved on from Latacunga to Banos . Very scenic route and location . Seems to be quite a lot to do around here so planning to stay a few days before I go down to Guayaquil for the flight to Galapagos .

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The middle of the world - Cuidad del Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:41:21 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Cuidad del Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador Have been doing lots these last few days, so am somewhat behind on blog activity. We spent another 2 days in Quito, doing all the usual touristy stuff: we went up the cable car from which you get incredible view right across Quito, from 4800 meters. The view takes you breath away, partly because you are looking at it from...

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Images of Quito - Quito, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:15:15 GMT

South American Odyssey

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Tribute to Vilcabamba. - Vilcabamba, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:55:32 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Vilcabamba, Ecuador Vilcabamba, a small village amoungst the moutains of Equador is like a little paradise. Having originally planned to only spend 2 or 3 days there, we stayed for a whole week. Surrounded by mountains and cloud forest, Vilcabamba is also famed for its fabled fountain of youth (although we knew at least one tourist who drank from it and...

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Mas photos! - Quito, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:55:09 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador So I figured out how to sort the pictures so that they show up in the correct order... but as I said before... this little girl is much too LAZY to do much... so sorting, correcting and redoing the prior pics is TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION! :) Anywho... here are some more pictures.

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Pictures pictures pictures - Quito, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:24:00 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador All righty roo... I have been walking all the live long day and am much too tired to write a journal entry... I am sooooo tired that my finger tips are sore! :) Enjoy the pics for now!

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Panama Hat, Bus Blows Up, Purple People Eater Gone - Cuenca, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:15:51 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Cuenca, Ecuador Last night was a complete mission and today we were exhausted. The bus that we flagged down after leaving Alausi was completely full but the driver pulled a groin muscle to get our packs in under the bus and gave us the co-pilot´s chair and a little bench to sit on in the driver´s cabin. Rock star seating. Cool. Then ten minutes drive up the Panamericana...

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Oil Barons and Memories of Ice Cream - Vilcabamba, Ecuador (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:52:13 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Vilcabamba, Ecuador "You're from Toronto are you? Well we're not going to hold that against you.", our new neighbour, a Tony Soprano look-alike, said to us after a brief introduction. "And let me guess, you must be from Alberta." I replied. First encounters with Albertans are always pretty much the same for me. It's as though they're just about to catch up...

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Ecuador holds first Refugee National Consultations in Latin America (UNHCR)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:00:07 GMT

Ecuador holds first Refugee National Consultations in Latin America This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 4 July 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Yesterday, Thursday, Ecuador started a nationwide process of consultations with refugees and organisations working on their behalf. It is the...

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Ecuador to Seek Foreign Loans as Growth to Quicken, Ortiz Says (Ecuador Rising - Hatarinchej)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:07:00 GMT

By Stephan Kueffner July 3 ( Bloomberg ) -- Ecuador, after restructuring its debt twice in the past 20 years, will seek to tap foreign debt markets next year as economic growth speeds up and public-sector debt falls, Finance Minister Fausto Ortiz said. ``Our great challenge in 2009 will be to issue international debt,'' Ortiz told foreign correspondents at the ministry today in Quito. Economic...

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Venezuela and Ecuador congratulate Colombia (Ecuador Rising - Hatarinchej)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:06:00 GMT

Colombia Reports July 3rd, 2008 · Venezuela and Ecuador have congratulated Colombia for the rescue of 15 FARC-hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contract workers. Both countries repeated their call on the FARC to release all hostages. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said to be thrilled about the liberation of the hostages without having to spill “a drop of blood”....

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Ecuador could issue foreign debt in 2009: minister (Ecuador Rising - Hatarinchej)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:04:00 GMT

QUITO, July 3 ( Reuters ) - Ecuador could issue foreign debt in 2009 as the oil-producing country seeks to reprofile its more expensive bonds abroad, the nation's finance minister said on Thursday. "In 2008 we are preparing the conditions to in 2009 return to the international (debt) markets," Minister Fausto Ortiz told foreign reporters in Quito. He said that could include issuing foreign debt at...

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Ecuador Slams Human Rights Foundation (Ecuador Rising - Hatarinchej)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:59:00 GMT

Quito, Jul 1 ( Prensa Latina ) Ecuador's Permanent Human Rights Assembly (APDH) denounced the partiality of the US organization Human Rights Foundation, and questioned its work in defense of citizens' rights. Where was that group during the tough years of repression in this country? wondered APDH spokesman Alexis Ponce, adding that the US organization is only present in countries with leftwing governments....

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Ecuador: Mining Law Helps Investment (Ecuador Rising - Hatarinchej)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:57:00 GMT

Quito, Jun 30 ( Prensa Latina ) Ecuadorean Minister of Oil and Mines, Galo Chiriboga, stated today that the new mining law will favour investment in the sector and secure environmental protection. It is a bill that establishes organized tapping of natural resources and harmony with Nature, highlighted Chiriboga. He added the proposal was handed over to President Rafael Correa, so he goes through it...

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