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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador Claire: Well I´ve managed 3 days at the zoo, getting up at 5:30am and returning to the house at 5pm and I am absolutely shattered. My spelling is therefore probably going to be almost as bad as Scott´s. In the past three days we have played with and fed the baby sloth, helped the vets perform surgery on an injured fox (scott got to hold...
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Quito, Ecuador The agreed plan worked and Gemma and I met up in our hostel on Monday evening. The view from the verandah on the top floor is great and we had dinner looking out over the old city. Breakfast the following morning was not too bad either, with an all you can eat ethos on pancakes, omelettes, fruit salad and fresh juice. So far...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Hey everybodyToday will be my first whole day in Bahia. Yesterday I took a 9 hour bus ride from Quito to Bahia. The drive felt really long since I was so anxious to arrive in Bahia. It was a very beautiful drive though. We drove though the mountains and jungle surrounding Quito. I saw many rivers waterfalls and all kinds of animals. We also drove through many small towns and some larger...
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The Atlanta Business Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Equifax Inc. said Tuesday it has bought a majority stake in Quito, Ecuador-based credit reporting firm Credit Report C.A. Buro de Informacion Crediticia. (EFX)
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
QUITO, May 12 (Reuters) - Ecuador midfielder Edison Mendez, who quit the national team in February, has changed his mind and said on Monday he wanted to play again.
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador For those of you who have replaced reading novels with this blog I thought i´d put a little entry in for today. Claire isn´t here proof reading over my shoulder so should the spelling not be right, tough. Claire is actually back at out host family reading through her Spanish notes as she had a lesson this morning. I should explain that im not...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Quito, Ecuador Having been on the go with various tours for the last few weeks, we were keen to settle down and use Quito as a base for the last few days of our travels. Quito has two distinct sections, the Historic Old Town with the city´s churches and old buildings and the New Town full of shops, cafes and bars. We managed...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Hey guysI'm finally in Ecuador I can't believe how amazing it is to be here. The parts of Quito that I have seen are beautiful. I arrived in Quito around 2pm. All of my flights went very smoothly. I got all of my luggage with no problems.I can't believe how nice the people are here. I met a lady on the plane that told me all about the country and how beautiful it is. Also when I got out...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador Claire: Afternoon everyone. As th title lets you know we are currently in Mindo. Its raining at the minute so we´ve dived into an internet place before catching the bus back to Quito. Mindo is a real small town about a 2 hour bus ride away. It was quite the journey as we wound down the mountains to only 1500m above sea level. Its much...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
QUITO, Ecuador -- President Rafael Correa said Saturday he has "no confidence" in the World Bank arbitration branch that is hearing U.S. oil company Occidental's lawsuit against Ecuador.
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
My friends and I spent the day at El Panecillo. It is a huge statue of a madonna at the center of the city.From WikipediaEl Panecillo from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread is a 200meterhigh volcanicorigin hill. The original name used by the aboriginal inhabitants of Quito was Yavirac. According to Juan de Velasco a Jesuit historian on top of Yavirac there was a temple which the In
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
VERSIONE ITALIANA SEGUE QUELLA INGLESE We spent about 4 days in Quito after we realised we couldnt go to the Galapagos Islandsso we moved our flight to Guatemala sooner to spend more time in Central America.DAY 41 April 20thFlew to Lima for one day only. Nothing really to report here except we heard it was quite dangerouslike all the capital cities in South America. Everyone told us that it...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Quito, Ecuador Scott: Hello again everyone, hope you are all well. We finally made it to the zoo yesterday. Its a good hour and a half communte but the views are a little more exciting than those on the A5. After getting two buses, one to take you out of the north of the city and the other to take you down the windy roads of the mountains we hitch a lift...
