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Running Two 10K Races in One Weekend.

Running races are very popular events in Quito. During the year there are several races, such as the “Ultimas Noticias 15k”, “UTE, 10k”, “Pronaca 5k”, and several races held in certain neighborhoods of the city.
A couple of weeks ago, many runners had to choose on either running the “Ruta de las Iglesias 10k” on Saturday, [...]

8Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Join Barefoot Expeditions at the FITE (Feria Internacional de Turismo).

Barefoot Expeditions will have a big presence at the biggest tourism event in Ecuador. This year the FITE (Feria Internacional de Turismo) takes place in Guayaquil. We will be collaborating with Vertical, a company based in Guayaquil that promotes adventure sports.
We are going to run a fam trip for folks that would be interested in [...]

3Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

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

Video: Remembrance of a summit, Artesonraju 2005.

22Aug2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Ecuador Whitewater Kayaking National Tournament 2008 | Results

Most of the commercial whitewater sports (rafting, kayaking) activities in Ecuador are held in the rivers close to the cities of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Baños or Tena. But the Second National Slalom & Down River Kayak Championships held in Bucay, in the Chimbo river was a good opportunity to explore new [...]

29Jul2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

16Jul2008 | antonio | 1 comment | Continued

Ecuador | Whitewater Kayaking National Tournament 2008.

The Second National Slalom & Down River Kayak Championships (Ecuador chapter) organized by the “Federacion Ecuatoriana de Canotaje” will be held in Bucay, Guayas, Ecuador on July 19th, 2008. The chosen river is the Chimbo, a class III river. It is not a commercial river, so not many people know how to run it [...]

11Jul2008 | Diego | 1 comment | Continued

Aconcagua 2005: Remembrance of the Summit by an Ecuadorian Team

On January 10th, 2005, at 19:00 four Ecuadorians reached the summit of mount Aconcagua. Jose Andrade tells Ecuador Adventures how this was one of his best and most memorable mountaineering experiences. Jose has been a guest blogger before for Ecuador Adventures. Enjoy!

Aun recuerdo el 12 de enero del 2005… Sentado en Plaza Argentina a los [...]

9Jul2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Ivan Vallejo, learning from his life story.

Last week at the climbing club of the “Escuela Politécnica Nacional”, Ivan Vallejo showed us some pictures, not from his latest adventures in the eight thousands, but from his first mountaineering steps in the Ecuadorian Andes where he climbed some really amazing routes -some of them have not been repeated yet-.
I appreciate very much the [...]

2Jul2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

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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