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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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Guayaquil, Ecuador – Dangerous Destination or Paranoia?
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 16 October 2011
After checking into the Oro Verde Hotel in Guayaquil, Ecuador I asked for a map of the city center. The concierge hesitated for a moment before unfolding one on the countertop. He marked off the sites of interest: museums; the Malecon 2000, a broad boulevard dotted with gardens, restaurants, playgrounds and theaters that runs for [...]
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Puerto Rico, Ecuador – A Little Piece of Desolate Heaven (and Sea Turtles)
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 16 February 2011
Puerto Rico is a small town along the Ruta Del Sol, in amongst a ground of small seaside towns near Puerto Lopez. To give some geographical bearings, running north to south from Puerto Lopez comes Puerto Rico, Las Tunas and then Ayampe. Each of these towns is small, simple and completely lacking in touristic accompaniments [...]
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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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Guayaquil – The Quick Stopover from Cuenca to Puerto Lopez
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 8 February 2011
Having decided to miss out the big metropolis which is Guayaquil, we decided to attempt a brief detour into the city centre on a journey between Cuenca and Puerto Lopez. We caught a bus out of Cuenca at around 09:00 in the morning arriving in Guayaquil four hours later. I thought that we were going [...]
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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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