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After Military Travels

august - september 2016
Et 23-dagers eventyr av Inbar Les mer
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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 9

    First night in Mindo - Ecuador

    29. august 2016, Ecuador ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

    I got here a little after 16:00 and was given a recommendation by a local who then proceeded to send her daughter, who looked to be about nine, to take me there. So there I am carrying my huge travel pack on my back barely keeping up with this little girl on a bike as she leads me five blocks and a left turn. Uphill.

    And the whole way there are children running about, playing ball in the street. I even saw a girl who couldn't have been more than three years of age walking somewhere entirely on her own.

    Anyways so the girl brings me to this adorable cabin, I pay my fifteen bucks and the girl behind the desk(mind you she couldn't be more than 15) leads me outside, around back and down these stairs to where the rooms are. I quickly realise that yet again, I am very much alone. If I had thought that I might find some travel partners In Mindo(which In my defense is a very popular backpacking site) I was wrong. On the bright side though, there is a forest with a stream right outside my door and I can hear it running from my room. Its actually a fantastic room if you don't count all the bugs... I don't think there was anything they could have done better though, I think that's just how it is around here.

    So I left the room to get some dinner, it took a few tries but eventually I did find a place that was still open at 20:30... Had myself a delicious Telapia in one of the best mushroom cream sauces I have ever had.

    After my dinner I went to find the one bar I had caught a glimpse of as I was running after the biking nine year old earlier. Well, I found it and here I am drinking a light Pilsenter. Never heard of it but it's decent, not too bitter for such a light beer(not a huge fan of corona). The bar is surprisingly lively and yet not a single person has come to talk to me. Legitimately, they probably all know each other from birth. I'm not sure what is worse though, being bored to death by a really boring guy tryin to get some or not being approached at all. Whatever, y'all know in making the best of it. Peace.    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 10

    Mindo day 2 - Ecuador

    30. august 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    I was feeling kind of down last night because I came to a hostel and was all alone and felt just very... Lonely. Today however, I bought myself tickets to a few different activities. One of them was Canyoning which is basically a glorified name for snappling down a waterfall. I got put in a group with three guys and vuala! I made friends. We even went out fro drinks that night.Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 11

    Mindo day 3 - Ecuador

    31. august 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    When I was but my activities, I was told I had to pay for a taxi as well. Now this seemed a little silly when I am such an able bodied young woman so I asked if I could walk it and they made a face of "you really shouldn't" but said that it was a two kilometer walk. To me this sounds like no biggy. So today I got my ready face on and started to walk. Turns out the way is up hill... But I'm surrounded by beautiful greenery so who cares?

    My first activity of the day is a canopy zip line. This was terrifying and exhilarating and everything it should be. I also met a pair of travelers who I clicked with and hoped to see later in Baños. The only downside (or upside, depending on how you wanna look at it) was the incredible amount of uphill walking I had to get again endure between each zip line.

    After that activity I moved on to the next. On the map they were drawn pretty close together but in reality it was another 3 kilometers uphill.

    This was a cable car that takes you across a ravine and on the other side you hike to see five waterfalls. The way was gorgeous but I was tired from the walking I had already done and this hike was entirely downhill. So I'll admit, knowing every downhill step I took was another I would have to take uphill later(and that I still had the five km back to town), I only made it to the first waterfall before going back. It was about an hour walk.

    On my walk back, I was picked up by a family with three little kids so I didn't end up walking the whole five km. Very entertaining ride, me trying to communicate with three little kids in Spanish who don't realize they need to speak slowly because my Spanish is iffy. It was all good fun.

    I got back to town and my friends from the zip line had yet to catch their bus to Quito so we got lunch. When they left, I went to crash at my hostel, I was spent.    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
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    Dag 12

    Mindo day 4 - Ecuador

    1. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    I spent the morning at the butterfly farm. I don't have a lot to say about this, it's pretty self explanatory. There were a shit ton of butterflies. Everywhere. And I got to dip my finger in banana juice and pick them up. It was wonderful, I felt like a giddy little girl.Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 12

    Back in Quito - Ecuador

    1. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    I went back to Quito after the butterfly farm. There I checked into Community Hostel recommended to me by my friends from the zip line. Great little place where I met lots of cool people.

    That night I met up with my friends from the Canyoning at the famous Bungalow. Pretty normal club if you ask me but they were super hyped up about it. It was fun, I got drinker then I thought I would and danced a ton and around 3:00am took a taxi back to the hostel.Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    1
    Dag 13

    Full day in Quito - Ecuador

    2. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Started the day off with a free walking tour provided by the hostel. We walked all around the old town from 10:30 to 14:00. I made a friend! Fieke, from the Netherlands. After the tour she and I went with the guide of the tour to his tattoo studio and I almost got a spontaneous hand poke tattoo...(mom don't kill me) but in the end I chickened out.

    That night, Fieke and I, as well as another guy from the hostel, Patrick, went to a street called La Ronda. This is a cute street where the locals make it all traditional with dancing and singing and food. We ate empanadas at a restaurant with live traditional music and ended up dancing with the locals to songs they all knew by heart. We were true silly gringos, but it was fun.    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 14

    Baños day 1 - Ecuador

    3. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Fieke and I took a bus to the central station where we parted ways, she to some farm and me to Baños. It was a three and a half hour ride.

    I arrived and immediately went to the dorm hostel recommended to me by the staff at Community Hostel. I asked to be put in a room with other people and was placed in a room with three guys. Bo from New Zealand, Jeremy from France and Jordy from Australia. Jordy and I got talking and when I asked where there is anything good to eat, he offered to come with me.

    When we got back, I got talking with the other two guys as well and after awhile I asked them if they would want to cook dinner instead of eating out. They were down.

    Jordy and I went to shop, we got meat and veggies for a salad. We ended up making a salad with meat, cooking while the other two boys watched and watered us with coke and rum. The dinner was hardy and delicious and everyone was having a good time.

    After dinner they pulled out more rum and when a couple (friends of Jordy and Bo) turned up we started playing drinking card games. After we were all nice and tipsy, we headed out to a club and danced to put heart's desire. I went to bed around five. Pretty intense night.    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    Dag 15

    Baños day 2 - Ecuador

    4. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Woke up pretty early for some reason, maybe it was the noisy street, so I went to do some laundry. When the boys woke up, I offered to make breakfast. It was an offer they could not refuse.

    And so I went downstairs and walked five minutes to the market to by some eggs. I made it all the way back safely and as I was getting ready to fry them... I dropped the whole bag. Good job, butterfingers.

    Jordie saw all of this and offered to go fetch more eggs with me. We got the eggs and take two worked out a little better. I bought some parmesan cheese as well and whipped us up a nice parmesan scrambled eggs. Feeling healthy and rather motherly, I must say.

    Didn't end up doing much today. The boys were supposed to leave for Quito but there was a huge accident(a bus crashed on a bridge, killing 4 and injuring 22) so the streets were blocked and they couldn't leave. We made a large salad for dinner and then went to the hot springs.

    The hot springs were fun. We alternated between submerging ourselves in torturously cold and scorchingly hot pools.    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
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    Dag 16

    Baños day 3 - Ecuador

    5. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    La Selva

    Today I spent a full day in la selva(the forest) on an organized trip. We drove out about two hours and the weather got bleaker the further we got. We arrived at a little cabin where we were given lunch.

    After lunch, we walked around the cabin mad were greeted by an animal shelter/reserve. We were immediately greeted by a little monkey not in any confinement and then we walked around the reserve and saw everything from different large jungle felines, to monkeys, parots, crocodiles and even wild boar. As we walked, it began to pour. Within moments of the sky having opened up, we were all soaked.

    We went back to the bus, running for shelter and continued our drive. We had arrived at a path that led into the forest. And so, dawning our sexy yellow, plastic ponchos, we marched on. This hike which was mostly up hill, had us walking through mud, streams, and over less than reassuring bridges.

    We stopped at a swing that swing over a cliff and I am proud to say, I braved my fear of heights and swung on that mother clucker. Unfortunately I cannot post videos here, so you will have to check it out when I get around to posting my scream fest in Facebook.

    After the swing we continued further until we came to an enormous waterfall. As you can see in the photos, I came as close as I dared.

    After having hiked out of this part of the forest We were taken to the riverbed where we were met by canoes. We floated down the river, absolutely soaking wet from the rain and waterfall from earlier. And the water that kept splashing into our canoe certainly did not help.

    Our last activity of the day was to be taken to a village of indigenous people. We had our faces painted by little girls dressed in traditional straw skirts and later when I tried to have a conversation with a few of them I was fought over(who got to paint my hands). All very entertaining. We also got to shoot a traditional hunting weapon made of a long tube you stick an arrow in and blow on the tube to shoot the arrow. I hit the target perfectly(must be my skills from working with weapons for so long).

    We got back around 8 pm and went out separate ways to our separate hostels. When I got back to the hostel, I was greeted by a full table of travelers playing drinking games. They called me to join but I was frozen and still soaked to my bones from the extremely wet day. And so I showered quickly and then joined. It was then that I met Cara.

    Cara is from Australia. Cara was going to hike up to the swing at La Casa de Arbol tomorrow. I announced that I would join her. More on that tomorrow    Les mer

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  • Inbar FriedmanAfter Military Travels
    1
    Dag 17

    Baños day 4 - Ecuador

    6. september 2016, Ecuador ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    La Casa del Arbol

    So Cara and I made an appointment to meet up at 8:30 in the morning and grab breakfast. This was when we began to walk.

    la Casa del Arbol(the tree house) is an actual tree house at the top of a mountain. A swing hangs off the same tree and when you swing it feels like you are swinging over a cliff(which truth be told you are). Now, most people pay two dollars for a bus to take you up there. We decided to hike. And so we began what little did we know was going to be the most difficult hike of our lives.

    We had been told the day before that the hike should take about two hours. It took us three. How did this happen?

    We began our trek with high spirits, expecting it to be uphil most of the way. We didn't expect to be practically on our hands and knees on a barely trodden muddy path that simply led up at something close to a 45 degree angle. We didn't expect this torture to continue the whole. Damn. Way.

    At one point I was telling Cara, "Listen girl, this isn't the right way." Her reply, "The swing is up. So if we keep going up we will find it eventually." and so we kept going up. And up. And up. We came upon a cow farm that we went around, barely touched paths, mud and lots and lots of up.

    Eventually we did find it. We sat down for a breather, took off our sweat drenched shirts and laid them out to dry before helping ourselves to a crackers and peanut butter snack. Then we put our shirts back on and took turns on the swing at the end of the world while taking plenty of photos. All the while, fresh faced lazy people, all done up in makeup and sweat free came to stand in line for the swing after getting off the bus.

    We decided that nothing could possibly be more difficult than the hike we just did. So off we began to take the correct path down. We must have gone wrong somewhere yet again because we found ourselves in unmarked paths once more.

    We got ourselves dinner on the way back. Upon arrival at our hostel, we showered and went to sit at a cafe where we drank something warm and read. A relaxing end to a taxing day.    Les mer

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