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One Cotacachi property that has an interesting past and present is the Casa de Cultura (Culture House). This is just round the corner from Meson de las Flores and captures the attention as you walk down Bolivar Street. Now it looks like this below. But before on the […]

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I often get asked what is it like living in Ecuador - community involvement is important once you are settled in. Take two of Gary’s readers Lee and Peg Carper. They actually came down here at the end of last year because two of their friends had visited Ecuador and Cotacachi and then raved […]

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School Progress Report!

Look at the attached pictures & you can tell the difference! Pramila & I visted the school today to check on the progress of the renovation before our departure to Quito tomorrow & then on to Australia.   As you may be able to see in the pictures, what a transformation ! The ceiling is beautiful. The […]

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School Rooves - they deserve it!

We had the unique & heart-wrenching opportunity of visiting a village school (kindergarten) in a small village about 15 minutes from Cotacachi 2 days ago. This was facilitated by Mauricio at the request of Micky Enright of Naples, Florida. Mauricio had worked as a volunteer in that village 3 years ago and still has very close […]

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Teaching English in Ecuador

We started the English classes for the staff at El Meson de Las Flores last Friday & had a second class yesterday. We are absolutely encouraged by the enthusiasm of the staff to learn English. In the second class we covered the various food types which we feel will help in their service to Guests […]

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Ecuador Nursing Home

Ecuador Nursing Homes. October 31, 2007 Recent updates have looked at the idea of developing assisted living facilities in Ecuador . We’ll read more about this in upcoming messages but there is a wonderful story about Nursing Homes near Cotacachi that was just posted at the Ecuador Living blog. You can read this and see some remarkable […]

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Cotacachi Nursing Home Visit

My name is Shyamsunder Tripathi. I am here with my wife Pramila for one month visiting this beautiful country and assessing if I’d like to retire here. What we’d like to do is give back to society and so apart from teaching English to local children in Cotacachi we are also visiting to different places […]

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Our first evening was spent at the charming Hotel Quito with views of the Andes and ice capped volcano. The next morning my small tour group was ready for a traditional buffet breakfast of exotic fruits and special Andean foods along with bacon, eggs, etc. Breakfast was served on the 7th floor of […]

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