On our second to last night in Quito we met some friends in town and went to the Mercado Artesenal to get a few gifts to take home to family members. (Family, if you actually read this I apologize for ruining the surprise. Men in the family, don’t get your hopes up—the women were easier [Read more…]
I apologize, I’m playing catch up and, considering the hour, I’m not too keen on journaling our time in Mindo. We took lots and lots of pictures, and since pictures are worth 1,000 words I’ll mainly just use our photos 🙂 Note: There are captions on some of them. Overall we had an incredible time [Read more…]
On Tuesday we packed up one bag with a change clothes and towels, and another bag full of food and headed to Termas de Papallacta. Some of our friends staying here at the farm went to these hot springs last week and were just raving about them so we figured we needed to see for ourselves [Read more…]
To finish up our weekend in Baños we boarded a Chiva and toured several of the waterfalls close to the city. A Chiva is basically a trailer with benches, a roof, and half of a wall built on it with wood. There are no windows, leaving it very open to the beauty of the outdoors. [Read more…]
After eating at the delicious “Blah Blah” sandwiches (seriously, their secret sauce was amazing!) the previous night, we were well rested and ready for our big day in the Amazon jungle! All we were told about this day trip was that we would leave around 9am and return around 8pm, we needed to wear our [Read more…]