Category: Ecuador

Quito, Churches and Carnivals

  El Basilica church a grey stone church with wonderful stained glass ,stone birds and fabulous tower with great city view. Huge circular stained glass up very steep streets to Basilica and then up a ladder to the twin towers. Museo de San Fransisco & Plaza. The museo was an old monastery lovely gardens with […]

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Mindo hummingbirds

They fly upside down, backwards, swoop, fight, float, hover and each has it’s own particular personality and I have fallen in love with these tiny iridescent birds. They flap their wings about 80 times per second which makes a kind of hum and from there you get it’s name. During courtship they will flap their […]

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Sua

Sua is a very small pretty village with a long white beach on the coast of Ecuador in the province of Esmeraldas. Almost everyone in the village is a fisherman and they go out in little dugout canoes to fish. It is also  place where you can see the whales from June to September.  In […]

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Camp Africa Esmeraldas Ecuador

Thanks to my friend Maryanne I was lucky enough to go to Camp Africa which is on the coast of Ecuador in Esmeraldas. Camp Africa is a small beach hut run by Archimedes an Afro-Ecuadorian.  The culture Tolita inhabited Ecuador from 500 B.C until 500 A.C . There are two important settlements of this culture, […]

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Banos

Baños is a beautiful city with hot springs, waterfalls and mountains on all sides but it is also an adventure town where you can race downhill by bike, climb mountains or volcanoes, soak in a hot spring, take a cable ride and party all night. It makes a terrible sticky toffee thing that stretches for […]

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