The Otavalo Market is the largest Indigenous market in South America! Every Saturday, the market square in Otavalo is chock full of indigenous art, crafts, textiles, jewelry, foods and musical instruments brought in by artisans from all over the country.…
On Thursday, February 9, we booked a stay at Termas de Papallacta, a beautiful spa resort located high in the mountains between Quito and the Amazon Basin. Instead of going over to Quito and then up, we took an alternate route…
Day one of our trip started out very energetically – is that even a word? A short 12 km drive out of Cotacachi took us to a large crater lake formed on the side of Cotacachi Volcano. Cuicocha Laguna is the equivalent…
Cotacachi – a small town in north central Ecuador. Political centre for the Canton Cotacachi (sort of like a county seat) in the province of Imbabura. It is a beautiful little town nestled in the valley between two extinct volcanoes…
We woke up this morning to about 8″ of fresh, heavy, wet snow. The drive to the airport at 4:15 was uneventful…the subaru loves the snow! We arrived at the airport to what was supposed to be a 25 minute…
Here I am, 1 day before heading back to my paradise and it is dumping snow here in Vancouver. My cousin Danny Fisher and his wife Rose are heading down from Terrace as I write this. I will have to…
Day two on the Yangtze took us through some stunning views and through the Three Gorges. The first was Qutang Gorge and then to the City of Wushan. Our stop for the day was to board a smaller…
Our first day out on the Yangtze was a cloudy, cool day but with lots to see and do. We awoke to a beautiful buffet breakfast. The food was well presented with lots of choice. Giselle and I toured the…
Today we were bused through the city back to the airport where we boarded a plane to Chongqing, the most populated city in China – over 32 million people, more than in all of Canada! The security at the airport…
Another day in Beijing, but this time, we were taken by bus into the mountains to the north of the city to see a portion of the Great Wall of China. It truly is a GREAT wall. From Wikipedia:…