We cantered along the ancient Inca trade routes with vistas stretching to eternity. While descending on a narrow track into the less-traveled Zuleta Valley, the sky darkened. A mist hit us and a few drops fell on my cheeks. Instead …
Category: Ecuador
Sacha Lodge, Ecuador – It’s a Jungle Out There by Linda Ballou
“The Earth has music, for those who listen” – William Shakespeare I leaned back on the comfy seat of a canoe shared with five other travelers in the magical maze of canals at Sacha Lodge in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin …
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Ecuador’s Equator by Mary Anne Lonze
Where can you stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere? How can you feel chilly standing at the Equator? Is that a real shrunken head? The answer to all of these questions …
Ecuador’s Equator by Mary Anne Lonze
Where can you stand with one foot in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere? How can you feel chilly standing at the Equator? Is that a real shrunken head? The answer to all of these questions …
Andes Road Trip, from Quito to the Coast by Mary Anne Lonze
Hold onto your Panama Hat … this is one exhilarating ride! At 10,000 feet, the air is perceptively thinner in the Ecuadorean capital of Quito. Travelers puff and gasp the first few days of their visit. Stone steps and …
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Seventieth Birthday Trip To South America PART 3 by Ron Kapon
At least I got to sleep until 6AM (rather than the 3 & 5AM wakeup calls for my other flights,) before my two hour TACA flight from Lima to Quito Ecuador. I would finally get to meet Paulo Irigoyen, the …
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Ecuador Spas With a Shaman by Nancy S. Tardy
My naked body glowed as I stood before a roaring fireplace waiting to be purified by an Ecuadorian shaman. Though not a spa devotee, I search for new and unique experiences when I travel; hoping to learn more about this …
Gimmicks by Heidi Ayarbe
All you need is a gimmick, and tourists will flock to the place and pay a ridiculous amount of money for the “experience of a lifetime.” Not even the savviest traveler is immune to the lure (especially if it has …
