Vilcabamba Travel Blogs

My return to Ecuador, this time i went alone, and for 3month, to learn spanish. now it is like my second home, and i know i will return! (text is in swiss-german...sorry guys..but i don't wanna translate...but there are also a lot of pictures)

Vilcabamba is rumoured to be have the ´fountain of youth´. Not in reality of course, but apparently scientists have studied the people in Vilcabamba and they are the longest living people in the world, with people living to 120 years. We sure haven´t seen any really old people though. Appar…

Can travel really change people and prospective of life..starting my blog, my very first blog with a picture of me in London.Not everyday wear really..cant wait for the mask and the make up to drop to reveal what is behind..me, the real me...

So, Vilcabamba. Where people live to be 130 years old. No joke. It´s a beautiful town, and I stayed at the best hostal, by far: Le Rendezvous, owned by a French couple who fell in love with Vilcabamba during their travels 8 years ago and decided to stay. Hammocks outside all the rooms, incredible…

A short distance from Loja (another wonderful bus ride through the undulating Andes) is the small town of Vilcabamba which has, according to my trusty guidebook (Footprint South America, very good apart from its occasional habit of making up restaurants that may have once existed in the past but do…

nach langer fahrt (5h von trujillo bis piura, 8h-nachtbusfahrt von piura bis loja, sowie 1h-taxifahrt von loja nach vilcabamba) sind wir gut in ecuador angekommen. wir uebernachten in einem kleinen netten hotel mit schoenem garten in vilcabamba, einem dorf in einem sehr fruchtbaren tal voller t…

Right then, lots to catch up on as I have been really slack of late and nowhere near the ubiquitos internet cafe full of slightly smelly gringos for a while, so here goes : Following on from last time ( I think as I never re-read these things) we left banos for a hick town called RioBamba (insert …

Another week, where is time going and what have I been doing! I got the train last Wednesday from Riobamba to Alausi and rode on the roof - it was great. I heard people say that it wasn´t so good but both Tara and I enjoyed it, it was certainly better than travelling south by bus because we w…

Join me catchin trains, planes and automobiles on my year long travels to China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Boliva and Ecuador. 06/07...08.

Hi all My name is Mark Robertson, 27 years old from Wellington, New Zealand. I'm off to Bogota, Colombia on 4 March 2008 from Auckland New Zealand, via Buenos Aires. Spending 1 month in Colombia attending a Colombian friend's wedding before backpacking my way from Colombia to Argentina, via Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia over the following 5 months.

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 :)

I loved Vilcabamba!! Its easy to see why the myth, that the average Vilcabamba resident lives for over 100 years, exists. The weather is usually balmy year round, the mountains surrounding the valley are stunning and well, the people and life just doesnt move that fast. We stayed in almost the bes…

Hello all,Today I woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing. Problem is, it was about 4:30am. Thankfully I was able to get back to sleep and pull off a full night's worth. The hotel I'm staying at is beautiful, and the rooms surround a wonderful, mature garden next to a pool and hot tub.I took t…

Vilcabamba is a tiny little town of 5,000 people in the far south of Ecuador. It has a much warmer and wetter climate due to its lower altitude and is very popular among foreigners, attracting many to take up permanent residence. Supposedly, the fountain of youth is said to be located somewhere nea…