Travel Tips
Tourist Safety in Ecuador
When we mention South America and specifically Ecuador, people might soon think about unsafety and the danger of the continent or the country. However, even though many people perceive the region as unsafe, it is safer than one might think, especially when you Travel Ecuador. Ecuador […]
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Ecuador Solo Travellers
Solo travellers are the one who travel alone during their whole trip. This doesn’t mean that they fly alone to meet up with friends or family on the other side of the world, but their whole journey is solo. Now, you might meet some other travellers […]
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Above the clouds with Gulliver
As part of my “Tourism Management“ studies, I decided to go to Ecuador – and I have to admit that my greatest expectations were beaten by this amazing country. Especially the last weekend was one of the most memorable and intense experiences I made in this […]
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Ecuador 1st option for retirement
Ecuador, from along all the almost 200 countries in the world, lies Ecuador, heading the top 25 BEST COUNTRIES FOR RETIREMENT, a small and peaceful country, the most bio diverse area in the world, plenty of art and history. Why such a small and sometimes unknown […]
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Walking the streets of Mindo
Mindo, we arose in the middle of the night to catch an early bus to “Mindo lindo”. Armed with hiking boots, water and a lot of sandwiches we took our seats in the bus and woke up two hours later surrounded by lush forrest and low […]
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Biking through stunning Baños
Hiking and biking, heading with a taxi to the Quitumbe Bus Terminal in southern Quito, even before seven o´clock on Saturday mornings you will find yourself stuck in traffic, but with a little luck you can enter a bus a few minutes right after arriving at […]
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Far away from civilization
Far away from civilization. The clock on my mobile phone says it is quarter past eleven in the evening, when Vero and I arrived at the meeting point for the bus, which will take us to Lago Agrio. Friendly welcomed us the driver and stowed our […]
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Quito – a Pulsating Metropolis
Quito, the wonderful capital of Ecuador lies on a horizontal strip of land in the Andean mountains, running north to south escorted by magnificent volcanoes. With an altitude of 2850 m is it the highest capital in the world and considered to be one of the […]
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Experiences at Hostería PapaGayo
Experiences in and around the Hostería PapaGayo. When you arrive to the Hostería PapaGayo, it feels like you are in another world. It is located 45min south of Quito in the Avenue of the Volcanoes, so it is the perfect starting point for the tours of […]
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Last stop Cotopaxi
Last stop COTOPAXI, Finally Madlen and Lars spent their last week on our acclimazation program, which consisted of the volcanoes Pasochoa (4200m), Illinizas Norte (5126m), Corazon( (4790m) and Cotopaxi (5897m). Before they started their first climb on Pasochoa, they were stopped by a herd of bulls, […]
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Beautiful Galapagos
Madlen and Lars lives in Berlin and she writes Blogs about her trips to foreign countries. Her website is puriy.de, where she and her colleague and boyfriend Lars write down every single experience they make on their journeys. „Puriy“ is Quechua and means travelling, which is […]
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10 Reasons to visit Ecuador
Ecuador is a country crossed by the equatorial line, a country with one of the highest active volcanoes on earth, a country with a rich culture and an even richer natural diversity. Ecuador – a country to travel in! In this article I want to show […]
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