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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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The Rafting Trip with the South American Explorers Club was fantastic!

Whitewater Rafting trips with lots of folks is lots of fun! The Rafting trip happened on May 31st, 2008 (original post) with people from the South American Explorers Club (SAEC-Quito House). Twenty two people from the SAEC-Quito joined us on this adventure. We also had a group of 12 college students ftom a Tourism [...]

10Jun2008 | Carolina | 2 comments | Continued
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Types of travelers

Before booking any kind of trip, think about what do you want from your travel exeprience, what do you want to bring back to your home -a story, pictures, a pin for your map, a personal achievement.

The naturalists. They research about all the natural environment they will visit, they want to see as much wildlife [...]

22May2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued
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Ecuador in Pictures (Image Gallery)


17Mar2008 | antonio | 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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Dutch Kayakers In Ecuador: Sharing the river with the freeyak’s folks

Lieke & Tim, two “dutchies” friends of us came to Ecuador to catch some waves. Lieke was already in Ecuador a couple of years ago, and is one of the “stars” of Barefoot Expedition’s Ecuador Travel website pictures.
They have a really nice website with videos, reports and pictures for those who like freestyle kayaking.
Tim will [...]

23Jan2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued
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Pictures from the Trip with the South American Explorer’s Club

Want to see the latest pictures of the trip with the SAEC? Click here to view the album in Picasa.

25Apr2007 | antonio | 0 comments | Continued
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Ecuador Whitewater Rafting World Championships 2005

Here is an assortment of images of the 2005 Whitewater Rafting World Championship held in Ecuador in 2005. Barefoot Expeditions was able to lend a hand with some of the logists of the event.

16May2005 | antonio | 0 comments | Continued


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