Manta Travel Blogs

I woke up early just to finish packing. First time my bag would be smaller in my way back home than at the beginning of the trip, hahaha. Well, there's always a first time ;)Yesterday Shawn and me were talking about taking out Roger for dinner, but he wanted to cook, so we agreed to go out for brea…

First of all, I have to say this happened the 6th, but wanted to have a separate entry, hehehe.We came back to Manta around noon and went straight to the hotel to look for our new friends. Maybe we could have lunch together. But we couldn't find them. They left a message for us, saying they were wi…

I haven't had much time to keep things updated, so I'll post some pics from the last few months. For the most part I hang out in Cotacachi to tend to the chicken farm. I try to explore the area nearby so I can have good travel advice for people who contact me. I've been out to the coast of Ecuad…

Ok, so we're leaving Manta tomorrow morning for a stop over in Guayaquil before flying to Galapogas for a week long boat tour around the islands.I thought i'd write a list of things we'll miss and some things we won't as we move on ( in no particular order) :What we'll miss:- Living in a coastal to…

Staying in Manta overnight wasn´t on the plan but once I arrived here from Quito (the bus took 8 hours), it was too late to get onto Montañita. The bus leaves from the South terminal to Manta, so I initially had to take a bus around the city after arriving in the morning from Otavalo.I am now tra…

I´m spending around 1 year in South America, I had an amazing time. Enjoy my pictures, I'd do it again.

While serving in the united States Navy

 Manta is a big tuna processing place, when we were docked we could see several boats unloading tuna's and maybe other fish. But we are not talking one or two tuna, hundreds of tunas. Big trucks were loaded with big and small tunas, once loaded they would go to the processing plants so we can …

Headed to Monticristi with Tim to shop for a famous monticristi (or "Panam") hat. After reading in the lonely planet that you can pick up a super-fino (super fine tightly woven straw hat that takes about a month to make) for US$100 we were ready to pick up a bargain. In reality, the lowest price of…