Category: people

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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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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La Selva

The Selva near Siona Lodge Ecuador felt more like secondary rainforest as opposed to primary but was still a beautiful place to visit. Siona lodge was on the fresh water lake with Caiman swimming underneath the lodge watching for food to be thrown out. Eoin and I fished for baby Piranha and when encouraged to […]

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Cenit and the day of the family

  Ecuador still has a large amount of indigenous people who live very simply amidst much poverty. 30% of the people that CENIT works with have no running water, sanitation or transport services. Cenit is a school for poor and indigenous people in the South of Quito, Ecuador. It is run by nuns who initially […]

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