Archive for Antonio Altamirano

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Adventurer at heart. Passionate about traveling and the internet.

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Climbing Cotopaxi: 8 Important Facts You Should Know About the Mountain Refuge

Here are some facts you should know to help you prepare before visiting the Cotopaxi volcano and the refuge:

Entrance Fee: The entrance fee to the Cotopaxi National Park is $10 for foreigners and $2 for Ecuadorians.
Entry Times: Admission to the Cotopaxi National Park (through “control norte” and “control caspi”) is allowed only before 4pm (16h00).
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January 3rd, 2009 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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Ecuador Whitewater Rafting: Image Gallery

January 3rd, 2009 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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How Adventure Travel Can Help Your Company Ride Out The Recession & Come Out Stronger

Running and operating an adventure travel company teaches you how to deal with challenging and unforeseen situations. Being part of the adventure travel experience teaches you a lot about yourself.
First you understand that risk by definition is not measurable. You learn very quickly to accept the future as an unknown and to understand that one [...]

December 28th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 1 comment | Continued
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The Best of Ecuador Adventures 2008. New Trips, New partnerships, Bigger Location and more!

Ecuador Adventures has helped us connect to our guests and the adventure travel community at large. It has helped us work through the challenges (and retributions) of running a adventure travel family business based in the US and Ecuador.  The team at Ecuador Adventures Blog (a Barefoot Expeditions publication) is thrilled to have served useful [...]

December 24th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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The issue with the Chimbo River in Bucay.

We discovered an issue with the way that waste in being handled by the town of Bucay, Ecuador. The city of Bucay is dumping massive amounts of garbage below the end point of our rafting trip. Barefoot Expeditions called the Municipality of Bucay to urge them to change the way they dispose of the garbage. [...]

September 18th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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Adventure Travel Helps You Grow Through Sharing, Risk-taking and Learning.

I believe that when one travels one does it with a purpose that involves taking the risk of going somewhere new, exotic, “dangerous”. This experience in turn will help you learn and gain more perspective. The time you have to experience new places is limited and the options that are being offered by travel companies [...]

July 16th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 1 comment | Continued
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Zip Lining (Canopy) in Ecuador

Ecuador in its small size has many different ecological environments and dozens of fun activities on each place. One of this activities is zip lining (canopying), which is rather new in Ecuador. There are maybe only 6-8 places across the country where you can do zip lining.
Zip lining is a safe adventure activity that [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 3 comments | Continued
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Quito and Baños: Winners of the 2008 Traveler’s Choice Awards.

We are happy to learn that Ecuador has two locations in the 2008 Top 25 destinations in South America. We have covered Quito before in this blog. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, located at 2800m of altitude has many cultural activity and great accommodation options, from bed and breakfast hostels to luxurious boutique hotels.
Quito [...]

June 6th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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Adventure Spas in Ecuador. Where to go and what to expect.

When you think about adventure travel, many things come to mind.

May 15th, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 0 comments | Continued
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What to bring to Ecuador and Why?

Most of the stuff in this list you will be able to find in one trip to REI or equivalent recreational equipment store in your local area. The basis never change. For instance, when you are done packing (the first time around) look at your stuff and take out half of the clothes you’ve packed [...]

May 3rd, 2008 | Antonio Altamirano | 2 comments | Continued