Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Pocket Camcorder With Low Light

go again!

That's it, we arrived in France , our " parenthesis South American" is now complete ... But certainly, we will return one day ...

The journey was long, 3 planes, 24-hour journey, 138 kg of luggage (!) And here we are St. Hilaire to where we will spend a week with Alex's parents.


"Our" camper (it will always be OUR little camper!), Meanwhile, piles up again for a ride with a very nice family Caroline, Stephen Manon, Romane and Thomas . .. After five days spent together, here they are ready to hit the road. Alex, who is now 11 months into a real mechanic, knows is happy to explain to Steph the "basics" of the camper ...

Here, the Citroen has new owners, but he already is going to experience a bit since the path this family will leave the Ecuador for Peru, Bolivia the the Chile and Argentina ... And back to square one in January where he will take the boat to Buenos Aires !

As for us, he said goodbye to with great excitement, as Alex would say " he never gave us " after almost 40 000 kilometers of roads and trails in South America, and allowed us to live a wonderful adventure, filled full to see beautiful things and make a lot of pretty games.

short, it makes us want to repeat one day ...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

What Is Your Cm Like Before You Period

Our last few miles in a motorhome ...

Our "some s" miles Ecuador do we have unfortunately not allowed to see much of the country ... So in a time more than covered that we leave Banos to travel north.

We borrow one of the "best" route to Ecuador (according to guidelines), we limit ourselves to imagine because of the fog ... Normally on this road, renamed the "road of the volcanoes," we would see the 10, only one will detach from the fog ...

We arrive at Zumbahua, market day, it's lively, colorful, and above all, authentic. And here we find great pleasure and Francis Armelle for lunch improvised. Appointment made on the following Saturday for the big market of Otavalo .

Zumbahua lies at the foot of Laguna Quilotoa : So we go up (as high as last time!) At 3800 meters to admire the turquoise lagoon nestled in the crater of a volcano. It's very pretty.

We spend our last nights in the motorhome in the parking lot of a school. Although it is school holidays here, there are tons of kids very curious about our way of locomotion ... We spend quality time with them, well, mostly Antoine which is full of friends!

We renounce to visit the Cotopaxi National Park (due to bad weather, the last time I eral!) And headed straight to Quito, the capital, where we have quite things to do ... the journey's end is approaching fast!


Grace Evelyn (thank you!), We were welcomed with great kindness by Burkhard, Claudia and their 2 little girls 10 months and 2 years. He is German, her Chilean and have a pleasant life of expatriates in the suburbs "quiet" from Quito at Cumbaya . We will stay three days and will leave with many of our problems resolved on the sale of our camper (and I leave with a new smile, Alex does treat me more vampire !!)... a big thank you to them! !


Now we are at D-7 of the arrival of new owners of the motorhome, a large French family of 3 children who take over. We therefore choose to spend a week at the hotel to empty, wash, repair, pampered (Alex's hard to imagine that soon it will no longer "SOUND" camper!). And there's job, it's crazy what you could cram in almost 11 months of travel ...

We sat next to Otavalo, north of Quito , the shores of Lago San Pablo ( we are now in the northern hemisphere after crossing " Ecuador "), the setting is very nice and time" almost "beautiful ... Too bad I can not too enjoy, I have been "contaminated" by the family of Burkhard and I am forced to spend almost two days on a drip! Decidedly the Ecuador, it does not succeed too ...


On Saturday, we are left with many emotions and Francis Armelle , there is really the last time we see in South America . Them, they continue their journey towards Mexico through Colombia and Central America ... Good road to you, Amigos! We walk together in the market of Otavalo " one of the finest South American " and buy our last memories ...


The motorhome refurbished and pampered like never before, we drive towards our final kilometers Quito where we found Carolina, Stéphane and their 3 children ...

Friday, July 11, 2008

Best Price For Rituxan

Arrival in Ecuador: Cuenca Banos through the Amazon from July 3 to 11

We arrived in Ecuador July 3 after spending our last frontier South American, with a little emotion anyway ... This boundary, located in the heart a lively market, is proving quite "folk . A bridge, which do not stop moving goods of all kinds, marks the separation between Peru and Ecuador. We spent 3 hours in this stirring, amusing finally time to solve all the papers ...

The Ecuador is a tiny country, the second smallest country in South America after the Uruguay . As Peru, it is divided into three regions: the coast and ocean , the Sierra with mountains and Oriente (the Amazon). As the country is small, we move easily and quickly from one region to another, a small concentration of South America.

So we come by the odds, it is 35 degrees, bright sunshine and our first kilometers in this country are in the midst of vast plantations ( Ecuador is the largest exporter of bananas in the world) ... and 150 km, it joined Cuenca and its 2500 meters, the third largest city. Pretty town famous for its straw hats, the Panamas ... We walk in the cobbled streets of colonial buildings in the middle. Pretty town but we like the daily rain a little less ...

From there we took the road via a Pan American pitieux in state ... Banos direction. Nice little stop to Alausi where we discover with pleasure the Saturday market and the specialty Ecuador: grilled guinea pigs ... yum! Lively and colorful. Then on a lonely road ... we meet another french camper. Flashing light and very nice little picnic with this other family. Them, they go for 4 years around the world, yet another adventure! ( http://www.poraquiporalla.com/ )

Arrive Banos under torrential rain, rain no longer seems to want to leave. We were hoping that the SUN for the end of our journey ... Banos is more than 1800 meters and the vegetation has changed, we come closer to the Amazon . So we are steering Puyo, a small town in the Amazon. The 60 kilometers from Banos to Puyo are on a beautiful road, the road of "cascades".

We organize a short tour to discover the Amazon ... Finally with the camper, we can do things!
We are thus left on a track (this time it's really the last one) that goes on over (recall: the tracks are really going to 10kms/heure, bicycles are beyond us) and leads us into the Amazon forest ... Short walk and swim in a beautiful natural pool with waterfall ... Our last night in a wild environment is rocked by the sounds of the forest ... almost louder than our bivouacs in Brazilian gas stations in the middle of the truck ...

Having failed to see the animals, then we go into a very nice game reserve where Antoine having so much fun to touch all the animals ... and where the incident occurs. Too pressed to squeeze the dough to a large tapir, I slip on of the earth, but wanting to save the camera I collapse face first on a small mound of earth. In short if you do not understand everything, according to witnesses the fall was funny and quiet. By cons I now have a new smile with my 2 front teeth broken, and I finally understood the term "speechless" when he saw the head of our guide when I found ...