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7 March 2010
Huanchaco, Peru
We spent a ten day week in Peru in February, mainly to extend the amount of time we could spend in Ecuador. Since the devastating flooding in Macchu Picchu occurred just as we were planning our trip, our original plans needed to change. We ended up staying the whole time in Huanchaco, a [...]
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28 February 2010
Guayaquil
We visited the largest city in Ecuador, Guayaquil, en route to Peru. We spent only one night in the city, so didn’t get to see much of it. However, we did have a chance to visit its beautiful Malecon 2000 a couple of times, which is a very nice, safe, modern waterfront park [...]
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30 January 2010
Quito
We spent four nights and three days visiting Quito, the capital of Ecuador. While in Quito we met up with Humberto’s family, and were shown around by his father who is also named Humberto.
We visited old town and new town by ourselves. They are quite pretty and remind us more of Vancouver than of other [...]
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16 December 2009
Saiananda
We visited the resort/marina/farm of Saiananda, near Bahía de Caráquez to see all the animals there. It was beautiful.
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11 November 2009
Getting to Ecuador
On November 4th, Scream left Golfito, Costa Rica for Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador.
We planned this trip excessively. The passage profile is uninviting, even at the ideal time of year, November through March. The trades here blow consistently out of the SW, shifting closer to S as the coast of South America is approached. This means [...]
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9 November 2009
Bahia Rincon
Bahia Rincon is the quiet, sheltered bay at the head of Golfo Dulce. The jungle encloses the bay on all sides. We saw all kinds of birds, that we can’t identify. It rained steadily the two days before we arrived and the first two days of our stay, so the water was murky so we [...]
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6 November 2009
Volcan Arenal
Like Monteverde, there are about a bazillion tours available in La Fortuna, mostly visits to Volcan Arenal. We opted to simply take the one suggested by our hostel. It was $40 USD per person, and included transportation to the volcano, a small hike, a dusk volcano viewing, a trip to a local hot springs, dinner [...]
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4 November 2009
Volcano Arenal and Back Again
We took a six day, five night trip inland from Golfito. The exciting and good parts of this trip are in the next post. This post is the tale of our misadventures.
We started and ended the trip with the 7 hour ride on the Tracopa Bus to San Jose ($10 per person each way). We [...]
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2 November 2009
Golfito
Golfito is a strange beast – as its name suggests, it’s a little gulf in the bigger Golfo Dulce, a very sheltered anchorage on the east side of the bay. There is room for many many boats at anchor, and the facilities for cruising boats are as good as we have seen them anywhere. There [...]
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30 October 2009
Monteverde
There are many ways for travelers and their money to be parted in the Monteverde Cloudforest area. It’s not especially expensive to be there, it’s just that there are many, many tourist activities available, all for a fee.
We skipped the butterfly gardens, the guided hikes in the national park, the Sepentarium and insect zoo, bungee [...]
