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Bucay (Rio Chimbo): Exploring New Adventure Activities Around Guayaquil

Last weekend we decided to get away from Quito, a city perched in the Andes mountains, and head down to the Ecuadorian Pacific Coast. We headed down to Guayaquil (the biggest city in Ecuador) to explore and see what kind of new adventure activities we can get involved with. To be quite honest, we’ve not [...]

3Sep2008 | Diego | 0 comments | Continued
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Trekking around Quito. Summit Three Mountains In One Day

“Los Pichinchas” is a range of mountains in the western side of the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Three summits are the most important: “Rucu Pichincha” (4,680m), “Guagua Pichincha” (4,698m) and “Padre Encantado” (4,570 m). These mountains are very helpful when you feel or get lost in Quito. If you [...]

24Jun2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | 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 [...]

16Jun2008 | antonio | 3 comments | Continued
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SAEC Whitewater Rafting Trip in the Jatun Yacu River, Tena, Ecuador.

The Jatun Yacu river is a class IV river, in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, close to the city of Tena, which is located 5 hours away from Quito, the capital of Ecuador. It is not the first time we raft with the South American Explorers Club (SAEC) members, and it is always so much fun!!!
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11Apr2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued
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Scientific Tourism in the Amazon Jungle: Yasuni National Park

Last month I spent 20 days in the Yasuni Reearch Station, collaborating with a phD candidate in his field work for his thesis about lianas. It has always been very interesting to meet researchers from all over the world in this isolated place of the earth. Some of them come every year [...]

11Mar2008 | Carolina | 2 comments | Continued
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Napo River Festival 2008 | Barefoot Expeditions Is a Sponsor

Napo River Festival is finally here. Four days from today (01/07/2008) the Napo River Festival will take place. As we mentioned in our previous post about the Napo River Festival, Barefoot Expeditions will be there and if you are traveling to Ecuador or are in Ecuador during those days you are more than welcome to [...]

7Jan2008 | antonio | 0 comments | Continued
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Wild Animal Rescue Centers

The animal biodiversity in tropical forests is decreasing in countries such as Ecuador. The global warming and the partitioning of the habitat of this animals is one of the reasons. But also the illegal trade of native animals, caused by the demand of national and international consumers is contributing to the decreasing of [...]

19Dec2007 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued


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