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Kick Your Shoes Off in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 12 November 2011
If you’re looking for a party, don’t go to Puerto Lopez, Ecuador. The loudest noise I heard during my week stay in this tiny coastal village was a rooster crow and many of the shops that cater to tourists were closed during the week. But after eight days of cruising in heavy seas around the [...]
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More Sea… Puerto Lopez & Isla de la Plata
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 13 February 2011
Having read how crowded and busy Montañita we decided to head for Puerto Lopez instead. I’m glad we did as there is a lot to see and the atmosphere is great. It is a lazy town with colourful buildings and smiley people. We arrived in the dark so didn’t get a proper impression of the [...]
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Swimming with sharks
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 26 April 2010
Well, no. But that sounds a whole lot more impressive than swimming with plankton. Ok, so now I’m understating our experience. We got to swim with some really beautiful and pretty big fish, but I’ll get to that.
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The 'Poor Man's Galapagos'
Blog: Cogs Watch - 26 April 2010
Travelling for a year means big time budgeting and can sometimes also mean saying no to certain pocket draining activities and places. For us, the Galapagos Islands is one of those destinations. When you're living on $20 a day or less and have seven months of travel ahead of you, including an inevitably expensive stint in Europe, a 'splurge' of $3000 or more for a couple of weeks is completely unjustifiable.
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Machalilla National Park – Isla de la Plata
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 20 March 2010
“Same animals. Just smaller,” was what we heard time and time again when mentioning that we would be heading to Machalilla National Park, by Puerto Lopez, for the sole purpose of visiting Isla de la Plata. And why were we bound and determined to brave the mosquitoes and go a long way off route just [...]
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Journey To The Ecuadorean Coast
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 18 March 2010
Generally, the great thing about travelling around Ecuador is that the longest bus trips tend to be about six hours long, and they’re usually a lot less. Quite easy, really. So it was a bit of a shock to realise that it was going to take the best part of a day to get [...]
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Isla de la Plata
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 16 March 2010
The reason that tourists journey up the coast to Puerto Lopez is for the most part to visit the Parque Nacional Machalilla. Part of the national park includes the small island of Isla de la Plata, reached by boat in about an hour and a half.
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To the Ecuadorian coast..
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 14 March 2010
It was time to take our newly acquired Spanish skills off somewhere else. As we’d moved around a fair bit in Cuenca, lifting the backpack onto my shoulders was not too much of a strange feeling, although it had gained some weight in the form of Spanish text books!
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Poor Man’s Galapagos
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 17 July 2009
Leaving the party town of Montañita, I headed up the “Route of the Sun” a couple of hours to Puerto Lopez. This town is a big disappointment coming from the mellow pueblo of Montañita. Puerto Lopez is spread out, a bit trashy, just not terribly attractive. But a lot of fishing boats are based out [...]
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