Category: Ecuador
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More than 3 days on the Quilatoa Loop
One of the highlights of visiting Ecuador is trekking the Quilatoa Loop – about 25 miles in 3 days of steep terrain at high altitude (9300 ft) through pastures, canyons, and small towns with hostels. We love hiking, but after reading countless harrowing trip reports and being aware of the limitations of traveling with a…
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Las Lagunas Saraguro Homestay
We weren’t quite sure what to do with ourselves after arriving in the small community of Las Lagunas outside Saraguro, Ecuador. Set in the verdant Southern highlands, the scenery was stunning and our accommodation was charming with its rough-hewn wood furniture and thick woolen blankets (and even enough outlets to charge all our devices.) But…
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Market Days in Cuenca
It took us 10 days to write about the piles of beautiful vegetables and fruit in (and spilling out of) the Ecuadorian markets. In a country straddling the equator where you can drive from the coast to 14,000 feet above sea level in less than 4 hours, each elevation is finely tuned to growing its…