Posted in Ecuador on Apr 8th, 2008
Ecuador spas offer luxury and value, another reason to visit Cotacachi, especially La Mirage Spa. The spa has 19 really great treatments.
Last year this Cotacachi spa offered two new treatments, a grape treatment and a chocolate massage.
Here is what La Mirage Spa’s new menu of treatments says about this treatment.
EXPERIENCE IN COTACACHI THE GRAPE TREATMENT [...]
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Posted in Culture, Ecuador, People on Apr 8th, 2008
Thankyou for commenting favorably on the video showing indigenous dance at a recent performance in Cotacachi theater. Here is another video taken that same afternoon.
Also the photo below shows an indigenous dance lesson held at El Meson recently. The teachers were very graceful and soon, much to my surprise, had us all [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Apr 7th, 2008
Thanks Gary for your insightful article. I recently emailed another Cotacachi resident about the $139,000 San Miguel house raising the same issue. I was told that the price was fair considering the size of the lot, the furniture and the size of the house. I don’t agree with that assessment at all. The house has [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Apr 6th, 2008
Cotacachi property and real estate offers great value but buyers should look before they leap.
Real estate in Cotacachi is inexpensive but there are growing numbers of people here who are marking prices up. Real estate buyers need to look at many Cotacachi properties before they buy.
For example here is one property in the [...]
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Dance is a huge part of many cultures, but the indigenous dances of Cotacachi and elsewhere in Ecuador have even more significance.
Indigenous dances here are interlocked with the culture so that each dance expresses something important in the local culture. So we have dances to celebrate harvest, others at Easter and so it [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Apr 3rd, 2008
Information on Cotacachi, that is, real information is at a premium. By posting dozens, even hundreds of photos here at Ecuador Living we hope we are giving you a clue to what it might be like to live in Ecuador or get a feel for a vacation here.
Although Cotacachi is not typical of [...]
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We write so much about Cotacachi, it occurred to me that posting a street map of Cotacachi would be a good idea. So I looked on the internet and couldn’t really see a good one.
The answer was to print of pieces of an existing map, copy them while reducing their size. Cut the pieces [...]
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Design homes in Cotacachi are slowly becoming a reality. Walking around Cotacachi you can see a lot of construction activity for such a small city, population less than 10,000.
Read on to learn the details of a new small development of 4 designer homes in Cotacachi that not only are supremely affordable but will also reflect [...]
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