Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
Christmas shopping in Otavalo One weekend in mid-December, I went to Otavalo to get some Christmas presents and send them home. Otavalo, as I’ve mentioned before, is most famous for the indigenous market on Saturdays where they sell lots of handicrafts and crafted goods like ponchos, tapestries, scarves and bags. Continue Reading
The Fiesta del Yamor (an indigenous harvest festival) is an annual festival held in Otavalo over the first two weeks of September. It draws tourists from all over Ecuador, and if you schedule your visit to Otavalo to coincide with it, you won’t regret it. The Pregón This year (2016), Continue Reading
Hello from Otavalo! Otavalo is a small city about 2 hours by bus from Quito. It’s most famous for its Saturday indigenous market, but I’m here for an entire week – doing another intensive Spanish course, this time with Mundo Andino Spanish School. Similar to the course with Yanapuma, I’m Continue Reading
After spending a week in Fiji, we were due to fly out on a Saturday and get home on Sunday. The day started out innocuously enough: Ziplining In the morning, we went ziplining with Zip Fiji – they have a few locations all over Fiji but this one in Nadi Continue Reading
To wrap up this series on HK, here is a totally subjective list of what I loved and didn’t love so much about this bustling metropolis: Cheap and good food: I have written a lot (in fact, mostly) about the food here, here and here, so I won’t go into Continue Reading
To be honest, Hong Kong has never been high on my list of places to go: it’s crowded, people are rude, and I do like being able to see the sky sometimes. However, the food is superb yet inexpensive, and that in itself is worth the (occasional) 4-hour flight there. Continue Reading