Wayyyy back in Meridá, Venezuela, I booked a top shelf get away for myself in Manta, on the coast of Ecuador a short fight from Quito. After three months on the road, another two and a half months to go, and with some time up my sleeve, I figured I…
Month: May 2013
oh, high Otavalo
/ 17/05/2013Otavalo is the largest of the Andean markets, taking up the Plaza de Los Ponchos and several more blocks on a Saturday. Even though we weren’t there on Saturday, the plaza still buzzed with markets and shopping was fruitful. I was surprised by a stall vendor who appeared from under…
no thanks, I’m not hungry anymore…
/ 17/05/2013Southward and Ecuador bound we covered a lot of miles, placing us in Ipiales to visit the impressive Las Lajas Sanctuary, built between a bridge and the bottom of a ravine on the site of an 18th century apparition of Virgin Mary. Apparently. Either way, many make the pilgrimage to…
pampering in Popyán
/ 17/05/2013Popyán is a whitewashed town with free coffee at reception, chicken feet in the set menu soup, a fabulous vegetarian restaurant which Fletch and I found after passing on the soup and a salon where I had my first hair cut in several months – the fabulous Carlos from Panama…
can’t catch a break in Cali
/ 17/05/2013Cali is a salsa hub in Colombia. If you get there on a good night. Which we didn’t. Time in this previously rather dangerous, drug-economy city, was largely spent acting as a good luck shopping charm for Stacy as we hit the local bus to Jardin Plaza for ok-large-cities-have-some-advantages, the…