Month: December 2010
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Day 74 – Galapogos Islands (Galapogos, Ecuador)
4:30 get up, taxi to the airport, crazy speed of taxi in the tunnel (thought of Princess Dianna), breakfast at airport, complicated check in, flew to Guayaquil first then to Gapalagos, warm, request to pay 100 USD each at the airport to enter Galapogos, took bus first to the boat and then boat to Santa…
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Day 73 – Spanish Lessons and Sightseeing (Quito, Ecuador)
Drizzling rain, Vadim Spanish lessons (part 2), Gintaras in the center of town, churches, no guides, San Francisco museum, lunch downtown (sopa de mariscos). . Back to the hotel, leaving luggage, buying air ticket, to Pobre Dialblo in the evening (too tired to wait for live music – leaving back to hotel) Routes taken: none…
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Day 72 – Equator (Quito, Ecuador)
French breakfast, Vadim’s Spanish lessons at a local Spanish school, walk around Gringolandia, Gintaras haircut, lunch in Times Square, Nicoise salad and chesse and meat platter; went to see equator Mitad del Mundo, cab guiding us for 10 -15 min to equator, back by GPS . Expensive dinner at Boca de Lobo (vilko burna) –…
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Day 71 – Welcome to Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador)
Book hotel in Quito, Breakfast at the hotel, both still feel a little bit sick, leaving Tulcan, no passport control, following GPS directions :), beautiful mountains, no rain, stopped at gas station, cheap gas at $2 / gallon compared to $5 / gallon in Columbia, filled 8+ gallons . Cool in the mountains, warm in…
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Day 70 – Landslide (Tulcan, Ecuador)
It was grey and early morning. After a quick breakfast, we went to pick up the motorbikes from the parking lot a couple of blocks away. A sleepy guy opened the gate, but he had no change, so we rode back to the hotel to break a bill. A group of locals gathered around us…