Well, I'm back from Ecuador and it was a blast. It was a long long trip down and back but the kids did fine (portable DVD players make travel SO much easier :> ). Highlights included:
- Someone trying to break into our hotel room at 11:30pm! (that was in the US not Ecuador)
- Galapagos turtles
- Amazing varieties of hummingbirds high in the mountains
- The people!
Some weird things to keep in mind if you ever make it down there:
- The keep the toilet paper OUTSIDE the stalls, so you have to stock up before you go in
- The two lane winding highways with a cliff on one side and a precipice on the other and a double yellow line in the middle are commonly treated as THREE lane highways (passing lane in the middle)
- Traffic is insane, some wide highways don't even have lane markers at all
- Air is thin
But despite the arduous driving and flying to get there, I highly recommend it as a fun destination!
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