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	<title>...en Perú - Travel Culture History News &#187; ecuador</title>
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		<title>Cycling the Peruvian Coastal Desert</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/07/25/cycling-the-peruvian-coastal-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2010/07/25/cycling-the-peruvian-coastal-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vogel Family only have a handful of months left of their journey from Alaska to Argentina. They crossed from Ecuador to Peru a few months ago, the passed through Peru's astonishingly barren desert before heading up into the Andes and eventually into Bolivia. See the desert part of their journey in this video.]]></description>
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		<title>The Santa Chilenita</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/03/13/the-santa-chilenita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tumbes Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few kilometres south of Tumbes, Peru's northern most region, is a colorful little chapel that grabs the attention of passers-by. It is here that dozens of believers stop off to renew their faith in the Chilenita, a mysterious figure apparently from the country's opposite border in the south.]]></description>
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		<title>Fur seals leave Galapagos and head for Peru</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/02/08/fur-seals-leave-galapagos-and-head-for-peru/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2010/02/08/fur-seals-leave-galapagos-and-head-for-peru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[charles darwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colony of fur seals has moved 1,500km away from the Galapagos Islands, a Peru-based organisation which monitors the aquatic mammals has said. Average sea temperatures off northern Peru have risen by 6C in past 10 years.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the difference between Peruvian Cebiche and others?</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/12/04/whats-the-difference-between-peruvian-cebiche-and-others/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/12/04/whats-the-difference-between-peruvian-cebiche-and-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peruvian Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ají]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arequipa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceviche]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lima]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peruvian lemons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what's the difference between the ceviche of Peru and the international dishes that share its name? To Javier Wong, perhaps Peru's biggest ceviche expert and internationally renowned ceviche chef, the answer is simple: There is no other ceviche in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Gastronomy is the new driving force for economic development</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/11/22/gastronomy-is-the-new-driving-force-for-economic-development/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/11/22/gastronomy-is-the-new-driving-force-for-economic-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the growing economic benefits Peru is enjoying thanks to its cuisine, as demonstrated by a second very successful gastronomic fair hosted in the capital of Lima not long ago, it is little surprise that a recent study by Arellano Marketing has produced figures that back up what is plain to see.]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve Cañaris tombs discovered in Lambayeque</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/10/23/twelve-canaris-tombs-discovered-in-lambayeque/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/10/23/twelve-canaris-tombs-discovered-in-lambayeque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cañaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chiclayo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferreñafe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Félix López Reyes has spent a large part of his life guarding the 35 hectares that he owns half way up El Gallo in the mountainous border region between Lambayeque and Piura, 2500 metres above sea level and 8 hours walk from El Sauce in the district of Cañaris in the province of Ferreñafe. However, it wasn’t until very recently that he realised that on his property was something more valuable to guard than his coffee beans and cows. Here a discovery has been made that may help us learn more about the Cañaris people.]]></description>
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		<title>The Chaski</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/06/14/the-chaski/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/06/14/the-chaski/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaskis (Chasquis) were the famous Inca messengers, highly athletic runners who were capable of running great distances along the Inca's extensive network of roads called the Qhapaq Ñam - the royal roads.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Vilcabamba&#8217;s Rumi Wilco Eco-Lodge</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabambas-rumi-wilco-eco-lodge/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabambas-rumi-wilco-eco-lodge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-lodge]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://enperublog.com/?p=629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started as home. After 16 years mostly as a naturalist in the Galápagos islands (one year in the Amazon, two and a half years in the USA studying zoology), Orlando came to Vilcabamba in southern Ecuador, fell in love with the valley, and found his perfect land by the stream. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Vilcabamba</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabamba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colectivo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The small town of Vilcabamba is 40 minutes south of Loja by colectivo or 1 hour away by bus. It is nestled between green forested hills in what was once an Inca sacred valley.

Vilcabamba was made famous in the 1960s when doctors announced that it was home to one of the oldest living populations in the world. It was said that people here often lived to well over 100 years old, some as old as 135. It was then that an embarrassing discovery was made - the researchers had been working with the parish records of the patients parents.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Loja</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-loja/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-loja/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Loja is Ecuador's most southern major city and base from which to explore the country's green mountains and cloud forests, in villages such as Vilcabamba.]]></description>
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		<title>Peru and Ecuador: Border Conflicts</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/peru-and-ecuador-border-conflicts/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/peru-and-ecuador-border-conflicts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modern Peru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northern Peruvian border has long been a problem for both countries - from as far back as 1828 when land disputes sparked a war between with what was then Gran Colombia and Peru.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Macará</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/ecuador-macara/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/ecuador-macara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The border town has a strangely painted red and yellow cathedral that looks as if it could be a children's toy model. Crossing into Ecuador, the mountains became more green.]]></description>
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		<title>Macará border crossing</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/macara-border-crossing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've crossed the Peruvian/Ecuadorian border twice at Tumbes (1,2) at it was not a very pleasurable experience. Macará is said to be very different, so when having to cross into Ecuador last week, I decided to try that route.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Race to the border</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/08/ecuador-race-to-the-border/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Cuenca mid-afternoon, eager to return to Perú. We needed to arrive at the border and cross it before dark, worrying about what might happen if we were wandering through the Huaquillas border-market at night. There are buses direct to Huaquillas from Cuenca, but if we waited for that bus we'd be crossing the border at sunset at the earliest so we opted for the bus to Machala, a small city less than 2 hours from the frontier. From there we could take a local bus and waste no time at all. It turned out that we were lucky we couldn't take the later direct bus.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Cuenca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/06/ecuador-cuenca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Ingapirca we returned to El Tambo to take a bus to Cuenca, no more than 2 hours away. As we approached I noticed the city seemed less run-down and dirty than the other cities we had seen so far. We arrived in the late evening, got something to eat and went to sleep.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Ingapirca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/04/ecuador-ingapirca/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/04/ecuador-ingapirca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cañaris, a strong and proud people, didn't want to submit to the Incas, as many other civilisations had done when the empire was being expanded into what is now Chile/Argentina and Ecuador/Colombia.

When the Inca armies finally did bring the Cañaris and other peoples from what is now Ecuador under their control they incorporated their cities and religious centres into their own. This is what happened to the formally Cañari ruins at Ingapirca, the heart of Cañari territory.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Alien visits the Incas</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-alien-visits-the-incas/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-alien-visits-the-incas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local woman was walking up the same mountain and confirmed that the Pan-American (a road from Chile to Alaska) was indeed at the top. The walk was arduous but we did make it - and faster than anyone else as they kept to the main path whilst we were led through a short cut. We were finally on the most important road in the Americas where we could flag down a bus to anywhere we wanted. We wandered along this heavily transited highway a while, finding it strangely empty. But before long a bus finally came by. We flagged it down and got on.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: La Nariz del Diablo &#8211; The Devil&#8217;s Nose</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-la-nariz-del-diablo-the-devils-nose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Devil's Nose is part of the rail journey to Sibambe from Riobamba and has been extended to be the name of the entire journey which is now solely for tourists.
There used to be a railway that ran from the northern coast to Ibarra through Otavalo, where we walked along the abandoned rails, on to Quito, then Riobamba to Alausí-Sibambe and finally to Durán near Guayaquil, where we started our journey through Ecuador. It was hundreds of kilometres long.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Riobamba</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-riobamba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Tena the next morning, heading south towards home. Via Puyo we arrived at Riobamba to catch the train to Alausí.
We spent a full day here to allow us to use a local laundry - we only had a small bag and a limited change of clothes each. Riobamba was a nice city - Andean and cold - but with a selection of colonial buildings and two nice plazas.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Ethnotourism &#8211; Meeting the locals</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-ethnotourism-meeting-the-locals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later that same day, after lunch and a rest in a hammock, we headed out on a 3 hour walk to a nearby indigenous community.
First we had to cross the River Napo so we could get to the trail through the forest that would lead us there.
After a long walk and a great picture of a butterfly the size of my hand, we arrived in a small village. It's was not as interesting as you might have thought - the buildings were functional not traditional - but we were here to talk to the people and drink their chicha not discuss architecture.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: A morning trek in the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-a-morning-trek-in-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our guide that we arranged for in Tena at the last moment and a last minute price, we headed out to an eco-lodge in the forest for the day. From the lodge - a wooden construction perched on a cliff of maybe 80 metres, we had spectacular views looking over the rainforest.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Tena</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enough of the mountains... we had escaped the heat of the coast for here, but now the British climate of the Andes was becoming irritating. Too cold, too cloudy and annoying on-and-off rain. It was time for the Amazon rainforest and the start of our journey home.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Peguche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Otavalo we decided to take a local bus to one of the nearby towns just to see what was there. We went to Peguche and found some houses, a church, two shops and an artisan's studio.
The area was very green and pleasant, and while taking in the scenery we found the remains of the old railway line that ran through the mountains south to Quito to Riobamba through the Nariz del Diablo and to the coast near Guayaquil.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Otavalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otavalo is a market town north of Quito and one of the main and most famous artisan markets in the Andes. We arrived on Saturday night, missing the main Saturday morning event. Market towns, however, maintain their markets every day and when we had a walk around the the town on Sunday morning, it was business as usual.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Mitad del Mundo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/30/ecuador-mitad-del-mundo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[0° latitude - the equator - just north of the city of Quito

We went to see the equator and the monument that sits on it. It was here that the equatorial line was calculated by Frenchman Charles-Marie de la Condamine in 1736. It's actually 150m off the actual equator as measured by modern GPS instruments - themselves often 7-10 meters off.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito&#8217;s Pickpockets</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/30/ecuador-quitos-pickpockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was maybe the first criminal act targeted towards me in all my months in living South America.

Annett and I had left the internet cafe where we had been working on a project, it was perhaps 9 or 10pm and we had found El Rey's Sandwiches, a small sandwich shop that sells $1 hot dogs amongst the dozens of bars and clubs in La Mariscal - a tourists haven in the day and party center for Quiteños and tourists at night.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito, the old city</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/29/ecuador-quito-the-old-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We walked from the new city to the old city to save on a $3 taxi ride, it took about 20 minutes. The old city, which spans out around the Plaza de la Independencia has buildings dating back hundreds of years. West of this plaza is another, Plaza de San Francisco that contains the Presidential Palace.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito, the new city</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/19/ecuador-quito-the-new-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent the first day in Quito using the local internet cafe for work purposes and not leaving the new city. Quito is said to be a city of two cities - the colonial old city in the south and the new city sprawling out to the north, not much more than a half century old.
Most of the tourist stuff is in La Mariscal in the new city and thats where we based until we were able to see the rest of the city.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Portoviejo, Manta &#8211; journey to Quito</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-portoviejo-manta-journey-to-quito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time on the beach was great, but we decided we needed a break from the intense heat. It was time to get to Quito. We were already this far north so we decided to go by the coastal route rather that head back to Guayaquil again.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Montañita</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were told that the closest beach to Guayaquil was at Salinas and we made a bit of a mistake heading there. It wasn't one of the famous beaches of Ecuador, but we didn't know that until we arrived there. We did get a good night´s sleep in a decent hotel and a cooler ocean breeze so it wasn´t all a waste. It also brought us closer to Montañita now only $1 and a couple of hours away. We packed up and headed there.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Guayaquil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Las Peñas used to be a very poor part of town - across South America the poor always live up on the hills. It has now been restored and set up as a tourist attraction, and the locals have set up a variety of shops, cafes, bars and restaurants. We were very unlucky on beginning our 444 step climb to the lighthouse at the top. It was already 32c, but cloudy. From around step 50 the strong sun appeared from behind the clouds to torture us. I am sweating just thinking about it.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: To the border&#8230; and beyond</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-to-the-border-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey was as expected - 18 hours from Lima, passing the famed and inviting beaches of Mancora, Punta Sal and Zorritos to arrive in Tumbes. The plan was to arrive here and take a taxi back to Zorritos to stay for a day and a night at the beach - before heading to Ecuador the next day.
But never make plans in Peru - something I know, but tend to forget. ]]></description>
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