We love living and doing business in Ecuador . Our home is in Cotacachi Ecuador , a small village about 1.5 hours from the Capital of Quito Ecuador . Soon we’ll be even closer to the airport as Quito ’s new international airport is scheduled to open in 2010 and its almost equidistant from our [...]
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Frankly the idea of belting down the side of the world’s highest active volcano on a mountain bike is about as scary and ridiculous sounding as it is appealing and challenging. So when the opportunity to do just that presented itself both fear and excitement were growing as I approached Mt. Cotopaxi , the meeting [...]
Really the last goodbye!
Posted in Culture, Ecuador, People, Travel and places to stay on Nov 22nd, 2007
What started out as a Picnic for the English Class students got extended to the families of the El Meson staff as well, and as you can see from the attached pictures, all of us had a wonderfully Fun time. We have never ever enjoyed a picnic as much as we did yesterday. Both of [...]
We have had so much fun teaching our students in Cotacachi at El Meson. It’s been a onderful experience for Pramila and I. Our last class was just a few days ago and so to celebrate (?) or say goodbye our students came for dinner whilst the group for Gary Scott’s investment course was here [...]
Ecuador learning
Posted in Ecuador, Opportunity, People on Nov 12th, 2007
One of the plus points for me staying at El Meson is all the interesting people I get to meet. I’ve got to say you readers of Gary Scott’s newsletter and you who come down here to the dozen or so courses we have each year are almost exclusively wonderful, well meaning people and apart [...]
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 [...]
Teaching English in Ecuador
Posted in Charity, Culture, Ecuador, People on Oct 31st, 2007
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 [...]
Ecuador Nursing Home
Posted in Charity, Culture, Ecuador, People on Oct 31st, 2007
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the hotel [...]
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