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It was a cloudy August day as we drove into Puerta Lopez, a small fishing village in the Manabi Providence in Ecuador.
Suman Tarafdar Posted: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 2218 hrs IST Updated: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 2218 hrs IST : 'We are a banana Republic.' Well, that's what Gonzalo Davila Trueba , from the distant land of Ecuador, says gleefully.
Air pollution, development earn Smokies low marks in National Geographic Travel survey
The nation's most popular park isn't too popular with National Geographic Traveler magazine.
The Poor Man's Galapagos Islands Tours
Galapagos Islands tours are often a highlight of any South America vacation, but can be an expensive and time consuming experience.
Sail the Blue Waters of the Galapagos Islands on a Green Catamaran
QUITO, Ecuador - Due to their unrivaled stability and comfort, Catamarans are the ideal type of boat from which to explore the Galapagos Islands.
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Casa Ceibo Resort's Double Grand Opening Deemed a Success for Ecuadorian Travel
Casa Ceibo is living up to its newfound reputation as the finest destination resort on Ecuador's coast.
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Kuoni Launches Its First Latin America Brochure Featuring 16 Countries
DORKING, ENGLAND, October 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Travel specialist Kuoni has launched a brand new Latin America holiday brochure, valid until December 2010.
Russia, Ecuador praise ties but no rebel recognition
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ecuadoran counterpart Rafael Correa pledged Thursday to ramp up cooperation in energy and defence as the Kremlin seeks to revive Soviet-era ties with Latin America.
Faces in the News: F. Javier Cevallos, president of Kutztown University
Faces in the News is a weekly feature that takes an up-close look at a person who recently was in the news.
Students giving back to Ecuadoran pupils
Visiting and teaching children in Ecuador was not enough for a group of Spanish students at the University of Redlands.
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Dengue Virus Serotype 4, Northeastern Peru, 2008
Brett M. Forshey, Amy C. Morrison, Cristhopher Cruz, Claudio Rocha, Stalin Vilcarromero, Carolina Guevara, Daria E. Camacho, Araceli Alava, Csar Madrid, Luis Beingolea, Vctor Suarez, Guillermo Comach, and Tadeusz J. Kochel Author affiliations: US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima and Iquitos, Peru ; University of California, Davis, ...
Currently instead of enjoying the thrill of tea baggers in the United States I am spending my semester in the picturesque Andes Mountains in Cuenca, Ecuador where the elevation is high and a visiting student has many opportunities to fall ill.
Q&A: A month in London, on the cheap
Q: My wife and I, ages 74 and 60, would like to travel to Quito, Ecuador, via freighter, banana boat or tramp steamer from Southern California.
Yamaan Safady is affectionately known as Rambo and also dubbed 'King of the Wadis' Tejendra Singh has been known to enable visitors to share Diwali prayers in local homes The Paul Morrison Awards was initiated four years ago in memory of the co-founder of Wanderlust magazine.
Arrived In Quito.... Breathless.... Could be from the general excitement of starting off on seven months of travel and going round the world for the first time, but equally could just be because this place is so bloody high! The city sits at the same altitude as a substantial alp and the hill above the town is higher than Mont Blanc! This will be ...
Panama City, Panama : Tocumen Airport and into the belly of El Cangrejo
I live in Boquete Panama but I just flew into Panama City from Guayaquil Ecuador.
Pirating the Caribbean: Money-saving tips David Swanson, Special to The Chronicle We've all been cornered.
Forming a medical mission team has long been on the hearts of faculty from St. John's College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Southwest Baptist University's Springfield campus in Missouri, and during the spring of 2009 the dream was finally realized.
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Unnatural selection divides Galapagos
THE mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador's Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago a ' man.
Galapagos: Spend Six Days Exploring the Galapagos for $1,399
Ever since The New York Times named the Galapagos Islands No. 3 on its "44 Places to Go in 2009," we've bumped it up on our own travel checklist.
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