Latacunga Travel Blogs

After a couple of rain lashed days back in Quito, we´ve shifted South to the town of Latacunga. This place is a decent base to get out to a few different places in the central highlands. (One tip though - try not to arrive on a Sunday, very little is open. Having said that…

¡Latacunga Latacunga! This is what the guy who hangs off the bus yells as we take off from Quito. We pick up a bunch of people along the 2 hour ride, along with the many people who come on the bus for a couple minutes to try to sell ice cream and fresh potato chips.  Pretty crazy place. So,…

Two hours south of Quito by bus is Latacunga. Not a very charming town in any regard but a convenient one for visiting nearby Cotopaxi Volcano, the highest active volcano in the world. On a clear day the volcano towers over the city to its south. But the clear days are not so common. So with some r…

Time to leave the jungle and start the journey south.  However rather than heading back the way we came, Dave and I decided to try and complete the loop by staying overnight in Esmeraldes on the NW coast before getting back to Quito. David kindly offered to give us a lift back to Borbon to ca…

Latacunga was not for us.  The tourist facilities are limited.  The food and service weren't great.  The vegetarian place we wanted to go to was closed.  The town ugly. Luckily we didn't have to stay long....

Our original plan was to go to Cuenca but when we found out that it was an 8 hour or more busride we changed our minds and decided to go to Baños after all. In the taxi on the way to the bus terminal the taxi driver told us that the direct buses to Baños don't stop there but that we needed to go …

One last painful morning of sorting out logisitics for the Galapagos tour. After checkout it was in to a cab to the new town and a bit more running around.  First a pointless 1 km walk (I'm told) that was about a 2.5 km walk to the LAN office that was shut :( So a cab to the real office where …

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