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A year spent exploring South East Asia, Australasia and my favouriter continent of South America

Got up a little earlier than usual this morning so we could walk up to the Statue of the Virgin. Was a good steep climb up the hill (and a very very windy one at that also)! With hearts pumping we could admire the view,... long enough to get sick of the sand and dust swept into our faces and lunch to decide to head back. We also met a dead scorpion on the way down aswell... rather pleasant! The plan was to visit the hot pools which is primarily what Banos is famous for (hence Banos means bat…

Arrived in Banos for a late lunch - yummy brownies! Then familiarised ourself with the town before heading back to the hotel to make ourselves pretty for a night out on the town. Bridget made herself useful training the bar staff to make Long Island Iced Tea cocktails despite the shortage of most of the necessary ingredients. There was drinking, dancing and stuff. Enough said. The next day was very, very slow. Low quality alcohol plus altitude is not a good combination. Sunday morning was a…

Los Angeles, CA to Quito, Ecuador. Stayed in Ecuador for one month going from Quito, to Tena/Misahualli in the Amazon, to Guayaquil on the coast, to Salinas, to the surf town of Montanita, back to Guayaquil to fly to the Galapagos Islands. We saw Isla Santa Cruz and Isla Isabella...truly an amazing place. Returned to Quito after 8 days in the Galapagos and then hopped a bus to Otavalo for the famous Saturday market. Ecuador is an amazingly diverse country and more people should travel there!

Banos is een hele leuke plaats, volop gelegenheid tot sportiviteit. We beginnen de dag met een sportdrankje (verse jus of bessensap of meloensap of andere sap), en lopen dan sportief naar de fietsverhuur. Daar begint onze tocht van twintig kilometer langs allemaal leuke watervallen. Er zijn vandaag veel mensen op deze weg. Per fiets: Amerikanen en Europeanen en per auto/bus/laadbak/quad: heel veel Ecuadorianen. Wat heerlijk om hier door de bergen (Andes) te fietsen! Na een tijd komen we…

Bilder ueber all das, was in den letzten 10 Wochen passiert ist, in der Schule in der Naehe von Tumbaco, auf Reisen und einfach so, in meinem Leben hier, in Ecuador :)

Roundtrip to Ecuador!

1 Continent. 10 Countries. 152 Days. 2000 Dollars. Millions of Memories. My South American Adventure begins Dec 2007 and ends April 2008. I am pretty much traveling alone and winging it. But one thing's for sure- it's gonna be one hell of a trip.

So, hier nun also ein bisschen etwas von dem, was wir in 5 Wochen in Ecuador, Peru und nochmal Ecuador mit der Kamera eingefangen haben! Eindruecke einer nicht immer leichten aber dafuer abenteuerreichen und vorallem schoenen Reise :)