Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Quito, Ecuador Day 1 and 2

We have landed and survived two days in Quito,Ecuador. So far our experience has been amazing! Our first night we arrived at Vibes Hostel where we were very excited to meet new people and get settled in our new environment. After finding our rooms and meeting Santiago (the coolest dude to work at Vibes) we went to get some beers and start our tab for the next two nights ;). The first night was relaxing; we spent most of the time in the common room where there is a pool table and everyone who lives at the hostel just hangs out and drinks and talks. We learned most of what became very useful information through people who have been traveling through SA for some time. We woke up around 8am and decided to take a cab to this cable car lift that takes you 1500 meters up a mountain towards a volcano. We got off and hiked another 1000 or 1500 meters where it soon became misty and awesome. The mountains are beautiful!!! We probably should have acclimatized our bodies before making this hike but we ended up feeling alright, only a bit of dizziness. We made our trek down and met a cool couple who taught us a lot of new Spanish words and we shared a cab with them to the Old Town.  It was alrrriiiighhhtt, mostly churches and sketchy looking people but it was worth the time. We ate there...chicken...and decided we were all really tired decided to head back to Vibes. More posts to come, but we are heading to Merazonia tomorrow and they have no electricity we think so this is all for 2 weeks or so, until we find another internet location. We are excited to get out of the city though, we all agreed that the more time we spend in nature and being outdoors with wildlife and such the more happy we will be because Quito can be a bit confusing and having this language barrier has been a little difficult,  but kinda fun! UPDATE: We were just discussing out next move for after Merazonia and a random  Scottish dude who is living at Vibes sits down beside us. He has an obvious red mark on his cheek and after talking with him we discover that he was part of an attempted mugging right outside of Vibes and the guy BIT HIM on the cheek!! CRAZZAAAAYYYYYYYYY - this is why we don't wander the streets alone - common sense, crazy Scots.

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