Trip to Ecuador and the south

sebasenbogotá says on Dec 14, 2004, 14:06:

Sorry I meant "I just want the guys that have been down there to answer me these questions"


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sandra_pas says on Dec 14, 2004, 14:18:

hello i lived in quito when i was like 12 for like 3 years, my father used to drive from bogota to quito to visit our family cause im from colombia, i dont remember much cause i was too little, but popayan is a nice city, i dont like pasto that much but is a nice city, and after u cross the border its ugly all the way to ibarra, tulcan is horrible, the highway is not that bad, but my advice is that if u want to take a good memory back u should go to quito from popayan to pasto i think is 6 hours or a little less in bus cause you have to cross a mountain, ibarra is aabout three to four hours from the border and 2 from quito i dont know any pricing sorry i cant help u with that, about the papers youre right thats how it used to be but i dont know, u need to ask cause theyre asking for more papers because of a problem they had with the colombian border, but im not sure, from the border to latacunga theres about 8 hours cause you have to cross quito. guess thats it hope u enjoy your trip
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paisa29 says on Dec 14, 2004, 14:53:

info hola

mira aqui hay algunos datos que pueden ser utiles.

Desde Bogotá hasta Pasto el tiquete puede costar $60.000= por trayecto aprox. son como 8 o 9 horas hasta Cali hasta Popayán 2 horas y media mas, el atractivo son las iglesias, luego hasta Pasto 5 horas y media aprox. realmente no hay mucho que hacer o ver, de ahí a Ipiales hora y media, el bus de Pasto a Ipiales vale como $5.000= aprox. para conocer el Santuario de las Lajas.

de Ipiales se toma el transporte hasta rumichaca, como 10 minutos aprox. $1.000 o $2.000 el pasaje, luego se hace el tramite de migración, primero el zona colombiana y despues en la ecuatoriana.

Si va solamente a Ecuadro hay que llevar la cedula y el pasado judicial, si sigue a otro país es mejor llevar el pasaporte tambien.

De ahí se toma otro transporte hasta Tulcán, vale como 1 dolar aprox. y de allí puede tomar buses a otros pueblos, hasta Quito son casi 6 horas y vale como 5 dolares.

El transporte y la comida son superbaratos en Ecuador.

El alojamiento en Quito definitivamente es mejor el parte moderna, me quedé en el hostal el centro del mundo como 7 dolares por noche.

Las terminales de transporte en Ecuador son lo mas cochino del mundo hasta cucarachas se ven, la de Quito especialmente es muy insegura.

Los policias nos molestan mucho a los Colombianos despues de pasar la frontera en Ecuador y mas aun a una mujer viajando sola como backpacker asi como lo hice yo.

espero que te ayude en algo.

chao

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sebasenbogotá says on Dec 14, 2004, 15:35:

Muchas gracias Paisa y Sandra muchas gracias, la verdad mas que por conocer voy para ver a mi amiga, el viaje lo empiezo en Pereira con algunas escalas.

De todas formas debe ser muy bacano conocer otros sitios de Colombia, no ir siempre al mismo lado.

Paisa, te encontraste algún otro backpacker en el camino?


Muchas gracias otra vez

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seattlejames says on Dec 14, 2004, 18:37:

I miss Guayaquil....... Lo siento, I cannot answer any of you questions, but, I miss Guayaquil, Salinas and Montanita....If you make it to the coast, please have fun, they are great cities....Very different than say, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta...Kind of like them, but different...But, I love all of them...Everytime I think of Ecuador I remember how I came to know Colombia...I was staying in the Hilton in Guayaquil and came home from dinner with friends and the Hilton was 'mobbed' with people waving flags and chanting...I had no idea what was going on..All I saw was more armed men and lots of guns..After about 15 minutes trying to get into the hotel, I was like 'what the hell'. The hotel was very very crowded...I asked, in English, what the hell was going on, and the Colombian futbol team was staying there.....And the lounge was very crowded with 'beautiful people'. So, immediately I went there and.........the story is long but I married a woman from Barranquilla....All becuase of that night.....Dios, gracias por Barranquilla y Guayaquil.....

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paisa29 says on Dec 15, 2004, 05:08:

encontré muchos, pero en el hostal en Quito

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