Ecuador Archives - Duff's Suitcase /south-america/ecuador/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:10:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Four months of South America in photos /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/ /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:57:02 +0000 /?p=4060 The second part of this year-long around-the-world trip (after a three-month stint in the USA), was South America, a continent I had never visited. It had always seemed so far from South Africa, so I felt like a normal-length two-week trip would never cut it. I saved up South America for a time when I […]

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]]> /four-months-of-south-america-in-photos/feed/ 0 Mashpi: a cocoon in an Ecuadorian cloud forest /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/ /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:34:52 +0000 /?p=3875 I have a special place in my heart for cloud forests. There’s something undeniably magical about being in a world of trees, where every view is of hills of green wrapped in thick bands of mist, and every piece of moss is covered in jewel-like droplets of water. After a week in the natural Disneyworld […]

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]]> /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/feed/ 3 An evolutionary Eden: the Galapagos Islands /an-evolutionary-eden-the-galapagos-islands/ /an-evolutionary-eden-the-galapagos-islands/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:18:32 +0000 /?p=3873 “No area on Earth of comparable size has inspired more fundamental changes in Man’s perspective of himself and his environment” said ornithologist Robert Bowman of the Galápagos Islands, which he surveyed for UNESCO in 1957. Humans first stepped ashore on the Galápagos Islands, which lie just less than a thousand kilometres offshore from Ecuador in the Pacific […]

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