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Into Ecuador
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 23 April 2010
We’re up early and move south through Ipiales, arriving at the border just after nine in the morning, which is quite busy with a long line of trucks and cars moving quickly through. We park on the Colombian side and take our paperwork to customs who keep a copy and give us the all clear. [...]
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Into Ecuador
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 23 April 2010
We’re up early and move south through Ipiales, arriving at the border just after nine in the morning, which is quite busy with a long line of trucks and cars moving quickly through. We park on the Colombian side and take our paperwork to customs who keep a copy and give us the all clear. [...]
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第五十九天：家與國
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 17 April 2010
Ipiales. 今天我決定去吃唐餐。走進一間華人開的餐館，甚是驚喜。在哥倫比亞兩個星期以來，首次遇到在此國落地生根的華僑。 我們一直以為是哥國過去太危險，中國人要離開祖國都不願選這地方紮根；誰知來自華東的店主告訴我們，真正原因是中國人要拿此國的簽證很難... 我不期然想，中國真的那麼差嗎？為甚麼同胞們寧可去曾經常發生炸彈或恐怖襲擊的國度，也不要留在自己的領土安頓？ 又和黃G 討論家的問題，這次深層一點，我們說家與國。選擇在異鄉定居生活，無非因為祖國動盪、沒機會、社會問題、吃不飽穿不暖等；可是出走了也不見得充滿希望 -- 看著眼前的三代同堂和飯店源源不絕的食客，本應生活美滿無憂，但和他們聊天，我不覺得他們快樂；他們流露的氣息，是對命運的無可奈何。誰願離鄉別井去當二等公民呢？這算是有家沒有國吧。 我不明白，難道高速發展中的中國比哥國小鎮遜色嗎？黃G 說在國內，貧富懸殊依舊是問題
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Day 58 & 59: En Route to Ecuador
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 10 April 2010
Stopover in Popayan, our midway point between the capital and the country’s border with Ecuador. A small town with its own character that was refreshingly different from other Colombian settlements we have been to. The streets are lined by whitewashed houses that felt blindingly bright. Stumbling into the main square was like a spiritual cleansing – everything was pure white! After a night
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Leaving Colombia and crossing the Equator to Quito, Ecuador
Blog: Trip Down - 2 April 2010
I left Pasto and drove the short steep windy Pan-American highway drive to Rumichaca (the border crossing near Ipiales, Colombia and Tulcan, Ecuador) but first stopped at the pastiche church of Las Lajas. A 10 minute walk down the overly-tourist heavy path (it is the beginning of Semana Santa) and then some bad chorizo [...]
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The other white city
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 31 March 2010
Saturday morning we were up-and-at-em early (well, early for us anyways) - saying goodbye to our new friends at the Rose Cottage hostel in Otavalo, as well as to our case of the "lazies". We were actually going to have to exert some effort for the next couple of days to get to our next destination of Popayan, Colombia.
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Colombia to Ecuador – Amazing Churches And Dodgy Calculators
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 30 January 2010
It’s quite rare that I get duped by money-changers these days. When you cross billions of borders you get used to working out beforehand roughly how much you want to get, and how much you’re prepared to accept. So it was absolutely infuriating to get scammed at the Colombia – Ecuador border, which is otherwise [...]
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Colombia to Ecuador - A border with class!
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 30 January 2010
When its time to move on to a new country, the one thing you dread second to immigration queues is border towns. They’re depressing places, usually full of unsavoury types who would love to get their hands on some gringo money – often in the form of a money exchangers.
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