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Enjoying Montanita: Ecuador’s Surf & Hippie Hangout
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 October 2011
arrived in Montanita on a Saturday afternoon, the busiest day of the week in the little surf and hippie hangout on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. The streets were filled with a mix of vacationing Ecuadorians, dreadlocked South American hippies, and surfers from around the world. My friend Kevin likened Montanita to a “backpacker vortex” because it [...]
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The Party Beaches of Ecuador: Montañita and Canoa
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 12 June 2011
Montañita Take several surfers, a bundle of slow-travelling South American musicians and artisans, mix in a heavy dose of rum and a little sex, sun and sand. Pour it all out by the side of a beautiful Ecuadorian beach and you’ve got something that looks a lot like Montañita. I spent a lot of time [...]
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Montañita - a little slice of beach-side heaven
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 24 February 2010
After the 31 hour odyssey to arrive in Montañita, Ecuador, I was not really in the mood to stumble into a town in full-on party mode at 10 pm. It had definite shades of Khaosan Road in Bangkok, crossed with the islands of course, tourist-filled, full of bars, restaurants, and dreadlocked Argentinians selling jewellry, sarongs, slippy little beach dresses.
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Guayaquil to Montañita
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 10 July 2009
7/5: I’m sick of freezing up here in the mountains. I’m heading to the coast! 7/6: Arrived in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city. Although Quito is the capital of Ecuador and gets all the attention for being the center of arts and culture (and generally being a prettier city), Guayaquil is the economic hub of the [...]
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