Beebopping around Ecuador

October 14, 2009

Okay! Some serious updates are needed! I apologize for being a bit of a slacker on the blog, but it is tough sometimes to find a lot of time to get online. So here's the overview of Ecuador.

Quito 4 nights

Tambillo/Santa Martha 11 nights

Mindo 1

Banos 3

Riobamba 1

Guayaquil 1

Puerto Lopez 2

Montanita 2

I already wrote about Quito and Santa Martha so I am going to skip to once we started just traveling.

We spent a weekend in Mindo which was a really cute little town where we did some ziplining through the cloud forest. We stayed at a really cute hostel and since we had 5 of us we got the attic which had hammocks as well which is key during traveling! It was the original four, and our friend, Idan, from Israel, who we were volunteering with. The ziplining was awesome because they sometimes let us go upside down..flying upside down through a cloud forest was pretty classic.

After we finished volunteering, we spent our first straight traveling visiting Banos. Again, we had the lovely Idan joining our group. During this time we stayed at Hostel Transelvania...classic name. One morning, after a fun night out, I woke up to some band blasting drums, trumpets....South America can be really damn loud. Anyways, one day during that weekend we did some horseback riding...I was kind of nervous the entire time about my horse falling, or being thirsty, or falling off a cliff or something. Sometimes we got to gallop a little which was kind of exciting..and painful. Anyways, overall we saw a lot of beautiful scenery and I did not fall off a cliff. :)

The following day we did a "downhill" bike ride to another town. Here is my general take on it..we saw some beautiful sights like waterfalls and lovely scenery...but overall it was hell. :) I was really considering throwing the mountain bike off a cliff...at some points Tom and I had to play word games to take our minds off the lovely uphill battle. Anyways, here are the four of us smiling... hahaha. By the way..it was 60 kilometers...whatever that means..hahah. Something like 40 miles...yeah.