Ecuador!
My big trip for 2006 was to Ecuador! I used my
way-too-short two weeks of vacation, and headed South. Ecuador is
a really fantastic place to travel, especially when short on
time. There are a huge number of things to do in a country
approximately the size of Colorado. We started off our trip with
5 days in the Galapagos, about 600 miles off the coast. It was
amazing. We saw an incredible amount of wildlife, and got to do
some spectacular diving.
After heading back to mainland Ecuador, we used the
capitol city of Quito as our home base, and traveled around to
Otavalo, did some hiking and biking on Cotapaxi, and went to the
Jungle. Our friend Ryan joined us for the jungle trip, then Sean
and Ryan stayed for an extra week of climbing after I headed back to
work.
I highly recommend travel to Ecuador. The
Ecuadorian people are incredibly kind and welcoming. Travel is
easy, both by bus and airplane. As you can see from my pictures,
it is a very beautiful place. I hope to write up more details of
the trip and add them to this page, but for now, here are the pictures!
Pictures in chronological order:
Galapagos -
North Seymore Island