Vilcabamba Vacations, Vilcabamba Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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. Apparently it´s the clean air, diet and exercise they get while living here. Vilcabamba isn´t the nicest place we have been to, we were expecting something like Banos or Salento (in Colombia) but bot...

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)

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 the three block walk across town to the small bus terminal.  I bought a 8:15pm bus ticket to Loja, and an 11pm ticket from Loja to Piura, Peru.  So that left the day for me to explore Vilcabamba an...

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 tropischer pflanzen (bananen- und avocada-baueme, bambus und tropische blumen). das viele gruen ist eine schoene abwechslung, nach den tagen an der staubigen kueste. zusammen mit unseren amerikani...