Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
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 saying goodbye to Yanapuma on Friday, I went with some other girls from the school to the Teleférico – a cable car that takes you up the volcano Pichincha to Cruz Loma (4,100m above sea level). Just another 1,300m above Quito – it couldn’t be that bad… or so Continue Reading
After visiting the Basilica of Quito, we strolled through a small neighbourhood park with some kids at the playground. The school holidays end in two weeks, so these kids were making the most out of it! My teacher-guide remarked that fewer kids frequent the playgrounds these days – many prefer Continue Reading
This wasn’t actually on our itinerary originally. But because of the bad weather preventing us from going up to Mount Vesuvius, we ended up coming here instead with our tour guide Fabio. And I have to say – I’m not sure Mount Vesuvius would have been better. If you are Continue Reading