Beautiful Ecuadorian flowers. Caroline Park is a huge park with a cycle track, fitness equipment, skateboard and biking areas, lots of beautiful open spaces and shady trees where you can spot the occasional hummingbird, football pitches and a small botanic garden and a reptile house. On Sundays it seems that all of Quito come and […]
Read MoreQuito is a Unesco world heritage city and has a lovely historic centre dating back to 1534. It is a really hilly city and on Sundays I used to love to cycle up and down the hills to get good exercise as one of the main streets, Amazona, is closed and allows a 40 kilometer […]
Read MoreIsla la Plata is called the poor man’s Galapagos and is well worth a visit. My favourite bird is the blue footed boobie who does a mating dance to attract his much larger female partner. He hops on one foot then the other and stick his tail feathers out. I am sure it is the […]
Read MoreThe Intag valley is a very remote mountainous part of northern Ecuador. It is famous for it’s coffee growing area. People here hitchhike or travel in large lorries to get from one place to another. 60% of its population are poor and face malnutrition. They subsist on farming the land and raising cattle. There has […]
Read MoreThe Secret Garden is an eco-hostel in the Cotopaxi valley. The views from there and also travelling to the hostel are magnificent. Cotopaxi is an active volcano and has been very active recently but not while I was there. It looms above you with it’s ice cream cone top gleaming in the sunlight. to the […]
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