Author: Eileen OShea
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Adventures in the rainforest
Half the fun, I suspect, of going to Sacha Lodge is getting there. We left Ilatoa Lodge in Tumbaco at 8:15am, arriving at Quito airport around 8:50am. A Sacha representative was waiting as they had said would be the case, and she took care of getting us boarding passes and our luggage checked. Kudos to…
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Galapagos Days, part two
After spending two days around San Cristobal Island, we headed to Espanola Island where we hiked and snorkeled and saw iguanas, Nazca Boobies (and eggs and babies), blue-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, lava lizards, an albatross family, Galapagos mockingbirds, a lava heron – I am beginning to understand why people become birdwatchers! That night we had…
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Galapagos Days, part one
I’m posting this from Quito, Ecuador where we have a brief break before heading off to the rainforest. We are staying at a great hotel called he Ilatoa Lodge that is on the side of a dormant volcano in Tumbaco, about half an hour (depending on traffic) from Quito airport – it has an amazing…
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Casting off
We are at the Quito airport waiting for our flight to the Galapagos, and I can do nothing but heap praise on Ecoventura for their assistance at the airport. As promised, they had a representative waiting for us who had forms ready for us and shepherded us through the check-in process. Our bags all had…
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A really big adventure
We are at the start of one the most exciting trips I’ve taken. I think I have to go back to my trip to Nepal to trek in the Himalayas to find any sort of comparison. We’re off to the Galapagos Islands, and it’s all my sister’s fault. You see, today is her birthday, and…
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The year of thinking positively
I was going to write a year end post in which I discussed what a “meh” year 2013 had felt like. And in the midst of writing it, I realized that I was boring myself. Here’s a fun fact about me: I’m a glass half empty kind of person. Generally, if there’s a way to…
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