https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:55:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/final-weeks-in-ecuador/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:18:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25398   January 22, 2018 We left the lovely hostel in Salinas about midmorning and made our way east on pretty decent four lane highway to Guayaquil. The 150km/90m drive was uneventful and not scenic; a few rolling hills, no towns of any size and hardly even a gas station. We made a pit stop for […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-on-the-pacific-ec/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 21:05:09 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25230   January 5, 2018 This was one of our longest driving days in ages – from San Pablo to the coastal town of Machalilla; we did about 300km in six hours on pretty decent roads which seemed good by the standards we’d hit in Colombia (where once 150km took eight hours!). We stopped in one […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/altitude-snow-ec/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:23:23 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25179     January 1, 2018   HAPPY NEW YEAR/FELIZ ANO! Again, we had super early flights to catch so we were up at 3:30 to catch the 4am shuttle to the airport only to learn our 6:05am flight had been delayed to 7:30! Then to top it off, we did not take off right away […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/christmas-in-canada/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 03:25:54 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25116   December 23, 2018 We were up at the gawd awful hour of 3:30 am to catch our 6am flight to Toronto via Houston. Both flights were on time and we arrived at our hotel via shuttle in Mississauga not too far from the airport by 6pm. It was COLD in Toronto (for us anyway!) […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/from-thermal-baths-to-a-snowy-volcano-ec/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:17:06 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25035   December 11th, 2017 Destination: Baños. This popular holiday/weekend spot is along the Route of the Waterfalls and is known for its thermal baths (actual name of town is Baños de Agua Santa – baths of holy water). As mentioned before, these are not our favourite spots to visit. The main thing we wanted to […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/our-adventure-in-the-amazon-ec/ Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:04:14 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=24745   November 20, 2017 We arrived in Lago Agrio, in Ecuador’s northeastern corner, not far from the Colombian border, and after checking and inquiring at the Hotel Lago Imperial, Doug got a rate to spend one night in the hotel and park for a total of three. We got Tigger parked in the corner of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/exploring-northern-ecuador/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:13:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=24629   November 14, 2017 We left Finca Sommerwind Tuesday morning, stopping in Ibarra to do some shopping and other errands.   We drove south into Otavalo and a tad east to the Parque Condor, which is a rescue bird reserve high on a mountain – directions were all over the place! Unfortunately, the place is not […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/quito-its-surrounds-ec/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:33:12 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=24893   November 28th, 2017 Quito is Ecuador’s capital city and sits high in the Andean foothills at an altitude of 2850m/9350’. It was built on the foundations of an ancient Inca city. Its official name is San Francisco de Quito and was founded by the Spanish in 1534. There are 19 volcanoes in Ecuador and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/arriving-in-ecuador/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:16:52 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=24479     November 9, 2017 Ecuador: our twelfth country on this journey; second, on this continent. Note: We have been to Ecuador before; we spent a month here back in 2011 during which time we took Spanish lessons in Cuenca, visited the Galapagos Island for 8 days and travelled around Quito. We will not to […]]]>