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Overview
Ecuador was made for the adventure traveler; the surfer, hiker, mountain climber / biker, the naturist and white water rafter. The comfortable tourist trail has been laid with very reasonable prices until you hit the Galapagos. You should take a visit if you want to do a lot of outdoor activities in a relatively compact area.
The Girls
Ecuadorian girls look very indigenous with straight black hair, high cheekbones, thin eyebrows, and small eyes. Their bodies were not blessed with curves, but every city, no matter how small, has at least a few natural beauties. Regardless, this is not a country you should be coming for the girls, as most of them look like pictures of Native Americans in your high school history textbook. In smaller cities, the white man is looked on with an extra dose of curiosity, and his gringo status will attract an occasional prostitute working pseudo-undercover.
City Guides
Prices
Basic set lunch: $1.50
Bottle of big beer: $1.50
Cappuccino: $1.25
Internet per hour: $1.00
Hostel dorm bed per night: $7.00
Nice steak dinner: $7.00
Short taxi ride: $1.50
Postcard stamp: $0.80
Safety
Ecuador’s two largest cities, Quito and Guayaquil, suffer from pick pockets and muggings. In fact, most people I met has a robbery or attempted robbery story coming out of Quito. Medium sized towns are mostly safe.
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Related Resources:
Ecuador Guidebook
If you're only going to visit only Ecuador then I recommend you get this guide, which is far more detailed than the continental guide below, with options that cater to a range of budgets instead of only the shoestring backpacking crowd. Also it gives more respectable treatment to small cities and towns that the larger guide breezes over with a paragraph or two.
South America On A Shoestring Guidebook
This is the guidebook that I used in my six month trip in South America. The maps are excellent, the information is complete and thorough, and the reviews are accurate, which is why it's often called "the bible" by many travelers. The only problem is that everyone else has this book so if you are the type of person that wants to hit the isolated small towns you will be disappointed. My advice is to use this book for its maps and information on getting from city to city, but talk to the locals and other travelers for those isolated gems that Lonely Planet for some reason didn't find worthy to include.
Spanish For Beginners
My copy of this book is so beat up and weathered it's disintegrating before my eyes. I took it with me to South America because I loved how it was organized in a logical way that kept me motivated to keep studying. Lessons start short and easy and increase in complexity as you tackle frustrating readings that help take you to the next level. The only downside of this book is that it was originally published in 1957 so some of the vocabulary is very dated. Still, you'll be hard-pressed to find a modern equivalent of this book whose teachings approach the same quality. Last time I checked you can grab a used copy from Amazon for less than a dollar.
you are writing shit, about Ecuador, maybe you travel with fear, and you fear don’t let you relize, all the good things, sorry for my english, but is true, are you a maricon
YOU DON’T KNOW ECUADOR!!!! ECUADOR is very very very beautiful! People who visits this country fall in love with her!!! Beautiful beaches, BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, beautiful and unique cities!! so stop talking shit about my country!! and i want to say i don’t think this only cuz i’m ecuadorian but cuz i heard what foreign people say about Ecuador! they simply love my country!!
SI SABES ALGO MÁS COMO PARA ACAECER TU CULTURA ENTONCES COMPRENDERÁS ESTE MENSAJE, ASÍ COMO VINIERON DE OTROS LADOS PARA HACER UN GRAN PROBLEMA, LOS QUE VISTE, LOS “INDIOS” SON MEJOR GENTE QUE CUALQUIER FANFARRÓN GRINGO QUE PUBLICA TONTERAS EN UN PORTAL, PORQUE NO HACES UN BLOG DONDE REALCE LOS PROBLEMAS DE TU JODIDO PAÍS, DONDE ROBAN MÁS, MATAN MÁS Y SE CONSUMEN ENTRE LAS DROGAS Y EL EGOÍSMO.
YA VEZ QUE ES FÁCIL ESCRIBIR MAL DE UN LUGAR AJENO.
ACÁ SI TE ASALTAN SIEMPRE VA A VER OTRO QUE TE TIENDA LA MANO, ALLÁ EN TU PAÍS NUNCA!.
La forma en como describís a las mujeres ecuatorianas te hace un verdadero gringo puto. Seguramente serán mas lindas las gringas color rosa que habitan tu país, perfecto, entonces quedate allá, comiendo tu propia mierda y el miedo que te da saber que ante el mundo sos un gringo de mierda.
Saludos a los hermanos ecuatorianos desde Córdoba, Argentina.
You don’t know what your talking about. there are many beautiful women out there. I am Ecuadorian I am beautiful and I have curves.
What? you apparently missed Ecuador and went to hell. The girls here have curves are the most polite and beautiful in the world. I have traveled Czech Republic and they girls here compete with them. That is saying a lot.
Girls here are great. I’m 63 and my girl is 23 and educated in Quito. She isn’t after a visa to the US, she isn’t begging for money. We have fun together, dance, play and more.
You are fucking nuts! Get out and see the world and not from reading a book in your fucking closet and writing about it.
I’ll have to side with everyone about this: I’ve been in Quito for about 3 weeks now and everyday I find myself surprised at how beautiful the people here are. Maybe you stayed in a different part or didn’t look in the right places, but I walk or bus everywhere instead traveling via taxi, which I’m assuming would help see more people(the night clubs don’t count, I seem to attract a lot of cross-dressers…). Your description may fit for a place like Runatupari where the indigenous people still reside, but it couldn’t be less true as a generalization–there are ALOT of mestizos here.
Please make a stronger effort to meet the people next time.
No offensive to the people of Ecuador ,I have been there for carnival! I know many of Ecuadorian women in nyc / nj ! I don’t feel the wow factor
like I felt in ,Argentina , Venezuela , Puerto Rico
and Colombia! Whom ever thinks Ecuadorian women are the most gorgeous in the world is exaggerating!
You and you commentaries are just SHIT, our women are not indigenous, maybe in the andes area ,buit in not all Ecuador, we have a beauty women, as like you in NYC, I WENT THERE AND I THINK IS A SHIT city with full of lazies, AND JUNKIES
I guess you do not to have to go by your self life writting shit of another countries.
Just I saw a lot of junkies giving an ass hole for a cigarrete, you speak CRAB
Hi,
My girlfirend is Ecuadorian (FYI she is BEAUTIFUL!) and im thinking of travelling to Ecuador. Honestly, is Ecuador dangerous for white people i hear they get targeted because ‘gringos’ are seen as wealthy. Im worried it may not be the safest place to go! however the country looks beautiful and alot of fun!