Quito Travel Blogs - Page 3

WE arrived to Quito late wed night and checked into out hostel, el Loro Verde.  Its a nice and clean place with spacious rooms and private bathrooms.  THe best thing is the location.. we are right in the middle of the Mariscal party seen in new town.  The area is full of cafes, hoste…

Finally Monday morning came about so it was in to the New Town of Quito to try to find a last minute deal on Galapagos tours.  A few of the bigger name operators didn't have anything until August so I was a bit disheartened early in the day.  One of my google searches had mentioned a…

i gone to Quito, to Guayaquil and To montañitas i spend great time in this city :D

To me, Quito was less than impressive, it seemed to be the charmless result of the aftermath of the collision between the old and the new. Don´t get me wrong, there are still plenty of cultural remnants relegated to the numerous museums. There are loads of tourists and foreigners, especially in th…

So I left Pasto to make my way down on another border run - this one apparently one of the worst due to the drug situation in Colombia, so I wondered what lay ahead when I took the 2 hour bus from Pasto to Ipiales (CP$6,000/£1.80/US$3), the largest town near the border.  From there, ther…

I spent Saturday, walking around Old Quito on beautiful cobbled stone streets, losing my breath on mild inclines, and hanging out at an internet café, well-positioned near a public bathroom.  After a short walk and lunch at a local restaurant I chose after giving up on finding the one in t…

Went to a park where they have weekend markets selling indigenous handicrafts geared towards tourists.  Well, we were tourists, so that's ok.  You have to bargain for everything, and if you don't know how much something should cost, you can get majorly ripped off (i.e. the same necklace a…

Well, out time in the Galapagos has sadly ended. We visited one last island this morning before being taken back to the island (baltra) with the airport. We have arrived in Quito and we are currently waiting for our plane for Lima. So, her is what our trip on the sailboat Encantada was like.. Afte…

31-7-2009 Quito Vandaag een beetje een rustdag. Ik loop wat winkels af om een nieuwe dagrugzak te kopen, die van mij heeft het na jaren trouwe dienst begeven. Tenminste de ritssluitingen. Maar een nieuwe is hier veel goedkoper dan in Nederland. Lunch bij Q op het terras. Diner bij La boca del Lo…

Quito is situated alongside Volcan Pichincha, which has the two prominent peaks Guagua (4800m) and Rucu (4700m). The climb up Rucu Pichincha is easily accessible from Quito so we decided to do that as our first test of altitude and stamina.We got up reasonably early and had a decent breakfast, and …

For the past two weeks, we have been learning Spanish and how to salsa at Bipo & Toni´s Academia de Espanol. Who are Bipo and Toni? Unfortunately that question will go unanswered as today was our last day. We bade a tearful farewell to our teachers, the delicious bread offered at break, a…

We started off our trip in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, situated in a valley, surrounded by the Andes and with a couple of volcanoes quite close-by. Although it is almost on the equator and one would think this would make for a hot tropical climate, because of the altitude, this is not the cas…

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Had some time to kill before checkout this morning so I decided to go see at least one church before leaving. Unfortunately, la Iglesia de San Francisco is currently closed due to rennovation, and la compana de Jesus was closed for mass. So, plan B: hunt down some Liga jerseys. Alot of little shops…

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