Gap year & Travel News

What can you do with 240 coke bottles, a big pile of sand and 10 Ecuadorian 4 year olds? The answer is, build an eco-friendly wall, as we discovered during our final couple of days in Chilcapamba – apparently Alfonso saw this technique being used in Costa Rica and so we helped to build the [...]

Sofie’s Team @ the Coast: Emily, Caroline, Eliza, Alexa, George, Catherine, Kieran, Emily, Georgie and Hannah Kauffman. Hello! We’re all in Atacames at the moment where we’ve spent the weekend on the beach. Everyone’s fine and work at Caimito has been going well. The team have been working hard all week on the school building, [...]

Last night, while cutting a rug in Atacames, an Ecuadorian lady said, “¡Estas el bailador mejor de los gringos!” Translation: “Hot damn, Alan, you have some sweet dance moves.” Needless to say I was flattered. Not even dejected by the fact that she called me a gringo (not a bad thing in Ecuador) , I [...]

So, it´s been a while… As of the last post, we´ve sweated a lot, tanned a ton, and had some fun weekend activaties. I shall expand: We caught the overnight bus from Quito to Atacames at about 11:30 and arrived at the coast a little before 7-ish. The night was extremely hot, noisy, and the [...]

News just in from Steffie Bartlett, one of our 9 intrepid Ecuador Summer Leapers:- When we arrived in Ecuador we spent our first few days in Quito going to to the old town and the church and just generally doing touristy bits, with a couple of Spanish lessons as well.  In the evenings we had [...]