Posted in Ecuador on Jul 17th, 2010
Below is a gift from the Andes… a recipe for Ecuador quinoa chocolate pancakes. I cooked them and… I ate them. Chocolate quinoa pancakes are an excellent… and healthy treat. Actually you’ll see below that almost any form of quinoa pancake can be good. Good… for what? Maybe I should explain. To see why [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 16th, 2010
Community involvement in Ecuador can bring great satisfaction. Take the example of Lee and Peggy Carper. They moved to Cotacachi several years ago after two of their friends had visited our hotel in Cotacachi and raved about it on their return. Lee and Peg are dog lovers and once they settled in they created a [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 15th, 2010
Ecuador Beaches, Health and Anti-Aging by Jean Marie Butterlin One of the healthy habits you acquire very quickly, when you live on the Ecuadorian coast is to walk for about 30 to 60 minutes everyday on the beach in the splash zone, where you just get your ankles wet. This has 3 main health benefits : [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 14th, 2010
Ecuador taxis started off Merri’s and my adventures in Ecuador 15 years ago. Ecuador transportation is readily available… pretty good quality… safe and inexpensive. We use Ecuador taxis a lot! Ecuador taxi waiting near our hotel in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Our first trip to Ecuador took us to Quito in 1995. Quito Airport is efficient and [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 13th, 2010
There is an acceleration of Ecuador political tension. Indigenous gathering for… Correa’s election campaign in… 2009. . When Dale Correa was first elected President of Ecuador it was with the support of CONAIE, Ecuador’s largest indigenous political party. When he ran for re-election in 2009 the bloom was off and CONAIE had withdrawn its support. [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 12th, 2010
Ecuador, as an emerging market, offers excellent growth potential. However it has some banking problems that we should not ignore. We live in a global economy so we can live anywhere and still have the best from home… and the the worst.. such as the ubiquitous Coca Cola, Burger King, Baskin-Robbins and McDonalds. At least they [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 10th, 2010
Ecuador has introduced new drinking laws. This is just part of good Ecuador news. The first good news is that Ecuador air fares have dropped. This is actually great news because air fares to other international destinations seem to be on the rise. We have to fly to Europe twice in August… for our daughter’s [...]
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Posted in Ecuador on Jul 9th, 2010
Here are several examples of Ecuador innovation to help the environment. Yesterday’s message looked at an innovative example of an Ecuador army tactic to create peace. That article stressed that one of Ecuador’s greatest asset is the gentle, sweet nature of the Ecuadorian people and how they try to accomplish really important goals in very [...]
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Posted in Ecuador, Evergreen on Jul 8th, 2010
Here is an Ecuador army tactic that may surprise you. One point I stress repeatedly about Ecuador is that its greatest asset is the gentle, sweet nature of the Ecuadorian people. They are earnest… and open… so it was not a surprise when I observed many years ago how they try to accomplish really important [...]
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Posted in Ecuador, Evergreen on Jul 7th, 2010
Galapagos tours are one of the most special vacations in the world and some of the cruise ships are first class. This is not surprising coming from a Norwegian run company. The Norwegians are the masters of the cruise. They have huge staterooms. And are luxuriously appointed. Here are some guests enjoying a cruise and [...]
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