I arrived in Quito on the Independence Day holiday – commemorating Ecuador’s departure from Greater Colombia on August 10, 1830. As part of the festivities around this, and also as part of the “Summer of Arts” in the city, several of the most important buildings in the Historical Centre of Quito were lit up in the […]
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This one’s a bit of a cobbled together post as I kind of sampled Ecuadorian food in a haphazard manner… My first foray into Ecuadorian food was through the Quito Culinary Tour and Cooking Class, which was followed up by the Friday Night Food Walking Tour offered by Community Hostel in Quito. There were about 15
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Something I discovered in the main market in Cuenca on the Free Walking Tour. If you want to: attract someone get rid of someone get rich or any number of other desires in life, all you need is perfume! It’s legitimate, quality assured and 100% effective according to the advertising on the boxes, and here I
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One of the things I was excited to do while in Cuenca was to get out and explore Parque Nacional Cajas. So I signed up for a day tour with one of the agencies in town and was joined by a family of 3 from the US. We all crammed into a very small
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Apart from the Culinary tour I did in Quito when I first arrived in Ecuador, other opportunities for cooking workshops have been few and far between. However, wandering down a random street in Cuenca I saw a sign outside of the restaurant “La Warmi” that was advertising one for that very night. Must have
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Although ziplining has become really popular over the past years, I’d never actually tried it. It never looked like something that would get the adrenaline going (I’m not afraid of heights), though it did look fun, so I thought I’d give it a go in Baños. Chose to do the 6-zipline trip at Puntzan – because, well,
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One of the most popular things to do in Baños is the Ruta de las Cascadas, or Waterfall Route. This is a 17km trip that takes in several waterfalls and ends up at the most famous of them all – the Pailón del Diablo. There are a few different ways you can do it, including by
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I still have a few blog posts to come from Ecuador, but I have already crossed over the border to Peru. Just had to tell you about that epic trip! Yes, I finally sat down the other day and figured out a plan for Peru after procrastinating about it for a long time. I knew I
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I visited Baños when I was in Ecuador ~13 years ago and it was quite a sleepy little place where the main attraction was the Pailon del Diablo waterfall. Whoa – culture shock when I stepped off the bus this time! It has grown enormously and every shop is offering either food (of course), adventure
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After hiking the Ecuadorian Inca Trail, I got the guides to drop me off in Alausí on the way back to Riobamba so I could take the most famous train in Ecuador – La Nariz del Diablo or “Devil’s Nose”. When they were constructing the railway from Quito (capital city) to Guayaquil (most important city)
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