21.08.-23.08.11 CANOA - Finca Rio Muchacho On Sunday afternoon, 21.08.11 I arrived in the beautiful beach resort of CANOA. Surfers, fisherman and sun seekers are sharing the gorgeous, fat strip of beach. And in addition of surfing, beach walks and biking in the country side a lot of tourists are visiting the lovely "Rio Muchacho Organic Farm". My plan was to stay for one night in Canoa and the following day I wanted to visit my dear friend Syl...

19.08. - 21.08.11 Puerto Lopez On Friday morning, 19.08.11 after having breakfast with my dear friend Yessi from Guayaquil I took the bus to PUERTO LOPEZ. The bus ride took only 1 ½ hours and went via "la ruta del sol"…..and went all the way along the coast. The whole way I felt like being on a "fruit, vegetable and animal market". Ecuadorians came inside the bus and were selling yucca bread, fruits, coconut water, sweets, nuts,...

17.08. - 19.08.11 Montanita On Wednesday morning, 17.08.11 at 9.30am I took the"buseta" (privat taxi) to GUAYAQUIL. For three hours we drove along the windy roads through the National Park CAJAS and the view and the landscape was just breath-taking. At one point we were even above the clouds and only saw the peaks of the mountains and when we drove further down we suddenly drove through a thick rainforest. About three hours later I arrived a...

Cuenca 21.07.-17.08.11 On Thursday, 21.07.11 Michaela and Martin from Rosenheim gave me a lift in their rental car from VILCABAMBA to CUENCA. I was supposed to stay with the German Couchsurfer Ludger but as I arrived much earlier than agreed I stored my backpacks in the "Hostel Pousada del Sol". So I went for a quick sightseeing walk through CUENCA. CUENCA is the third biggest city (approx. 470.000 inhabitants) of Ecuador and with its numero...

Vilcabamba 17.07.- 21.07.11 After a 9 hour night bus from Huaraz to Trujillo (Peru), then another bus from Trujillo to Chiclayo, Peru (4 hours), then another bus from Chiclayo to Piura, Peru (3hours), then the next night bus from Piura to Loja in ECUADOR and then another last bus at 7am in the morning for two hours, I finally arrived at 9am in VILCAMAMBA. Puuhhh what a ride….approx. 27 hours and no bed for 6 days as I was trekking and camping before in ...