Posts in Tag: Ecuador
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Kicker Rock – San Cristobal by Boat
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Experiental tour of Ecuador we landed on the Galapagos island of San Cristobal and immediately were immersed in the amazing wildlife for which the archipelago is so famous. In this post we’ll board a small boat and continue to look for more unique species on land and […]
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San Cristobal – Where Evolution was Born
I’ve been waiting almost my entire life to visit the Galapagos Islands and today that is finally going to happen. I know I’m dating myself, but my fascination with this unique archipelago goes all the way back to the 1960’s when the CBC (that’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those who aren’t Canucks) aired a five […]
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Hacienda Zuleta – Where the Condors Are
Hacienda is one of those words that just slips off your tongue and evokes images of bygone romance in colonial Latin America. I first fell in love with it as a kid watching the great Guy Williams as Zorro in the series set in pre-independence from Spain southern California. His father owned a large hacienda […]
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Quito Highlights – TeleferiQo & Much More
In my first post from Quito I described a walking tour through the UNESCO World Heritage Site historic centre of this amazing city. It was led by Alfredo Meneses our Adventures Abroad guide and was the kickoff of a 14 day Experiential Ecuador Tour that will take us to the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon […]
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Quito – Walking the Historic District
This is my first in depth post from a recent trip to Ecuador with Adventures Abroad. In a previous post I gave my top eight reasons why Ecuador should be high on every traveller’s list of places to visit in 2023. In this post we’ll accompany our AA guide Alfredo Meneses on a walking tour […]
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Ecuador with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I recently returned from yet another fabulous destination with Adventures Abroad, the country of Ecuador which despite its relatively small size, has an incredible variety of ecosystems. From the Galapagos Islands to the towering volcanoes of the Andes to the UNESCO World Heritage cities of Quito and Cuenca to the truly staggering diversity […]