I woke up around 4 a.m. The jetlag is a killer. Last night I went to sleep at 19:30. When I opened my eyes it was still pitch dark outside. So I stayed in bed staring at the ceiling for another couple of hours.
At 6:30 I decided it was enough. I woke Tudor up and we had a wonderful breakfast: coffee with milk, fresh mango juice, scrambled eggs, toast, butter and jam and a banana on top of everything.
After that we took a taxi and went a few kilometers out of town to “Mitad del Mundo” – the middle of the world.
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We arrived in Quito around 9 a.m., after a flight change in Amsterdam and two other stops – one in Bonaire, in the Dutch Antilles and another in Guayaquil (port town in Ecuador). Total travel time – 22 hours.
We gained 7 hours travelling West, and although we felt like at the end of a day, here the day was just beginning.
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Starting today I will begin to post here the Ecuador travel diary. To make a long story short, we visited to Ecuador this year, for a whole month. We visited cities, jungle and the Pacific coast. Tea wrote down everything in the diary and I completed the story with pictures.
As a novelty, the diary will not be accessible in its entirety on the main page of the blog. Instead I have divised a special section for travel diaries which you can access by clicking on the “Ecuador Diary” button under the header of the home page.
Also, this year, the diary will be available in both Romanian and English.
EDIT: Some sort of error prevents users with Internet Explorer 6.0 browser to comment or view the page properly.
Just a few quick pictures to show this wonderful tradition. More pictures and text coming after I get back.
September 21st, 2009
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The jungle part of the Ecuador trip has suffered a few changes due to unforeseen events. Thus we will be travelling from Coca on the Via Auca and then by motorized canoe to the Noneno community where we will camp for a few days. We will then return to Coca and proceed down river towards Peru for about 10-12 hours to the border town of Nuevo Rocafuerte. From there to the Kawimeno community.
We’ll take the same route back to Coca.
These changes also mean a logistic change, as we will be travelling with camping equipment and we will sleep in a tent instead of the more expensive (and comfortable) Jungle Lodges.
Hopefully this way we will experience a more realistic version of life in the Amazon Rainforest, staying clear of the touristy sites. Our new-found guide, by the name of Sandro Ramos, is an experienced guy, licensed by the Ministry of Tourism, who has done this trip many times before. He seems very nice and knowledgeable, but he will sure test my knowledge of Spanish language to the limit.
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