Another one of the awesome day trips I did from Quito was a day trip to the crater lake Quillotoa. After being impressed with Gulliver's travels day trip to cotopaxi national park, including bike riding and a climb to the glaciers. I decided to go with them again to Quillotoa lake. Note: There are many different
I wrote recently about my attempt at bridge jumping in Banos and how it scared me half to death. Today I am going to talk about a less adrenalin filled day trip I did from Banos, a visit to a monkey sanctuary in Puyo. Over my four and a half month’s backpacking through Latin America I
When I first started my Latin American trip I set out to try as many new experiences as I could. I wanted to put myself out of my comfort zone and truly test myself. Over my tripI had swam with sharks and giant sting rays (and even got to hold one) in Caye caulker Belize,
It’s been just over 11 week’s since I finished my 5 month solo backpacking adventure through Latin America and returned to my home town of Brisbane Australia. Before that I had been on a working holiday in Montreal Canada for over 2 years, It’s been great being back in the land of OZ and catching
Another one of the awesome day trips I did from Quito Ecuador was climbing volcano Cotopaxi and enjoying some downhill mountain biking in the Cotopaxi national park. Volcano Cotopaxi or mount Cotopaxi as it is sometimes called is one of the highest most active volcanoes in the world. Coming in at a height of 5,897 m (19,347 ft)
Located just a couple of hours north west of Quito is the Andean town of Mindo. reachable by a bus from the north bus station for cost of $2.50. Set in a beautiful cloud forest this small town is primarily famous for it's number of bird species with over 450. There is also a large
While I was in Quito one of the many day trips that I did was visiting the Equator line "Mitad Del Mundo" (Middle of the Earth). Located just an hour and a half out of Quito on a series of bus's or a 30 minute taxi ride north of Quito is Mitad Del Mundo.
One of the many day trip's I did while staying in Quito Ecuador was visiting the early morning Animal and town markets in the small of Otavalo, located just 2 hours north of Quito. The early morning Otavalo Animal Markets With the animal market's starting at 6am on a Saturday morning and finishing at 10am
So as people who have been following this blog for a while will know at the end of last year I started my Latin American Adventure where I solo backpacked through over 11 countries.While each place I visited had something about it that made it great, there are always those places that just stand out from
As many of you have followed my journey you will know that I didn't get much of a chance to document the last part of my trip through Latin America between January and March. I thought that it would be a real shame to have left so many amazing stories untold. So over the next
