Last time I wrote a text about choosing the travel destination in the South America. Today I’m going to present you what shouldn’t be missing in your backpack and what should be better left at home.I was inspired by a discussion on a Facebook group dedicated to backpacking in the …
I was pushed out of the bus as a cartoon character. I felt thrown up by the crowd. With my backpack and three bags I had a bit of what’s completely unknown in Ecuador – personal space in a bus. No one let me pass – I had to fight …
‘Oh, I’m going to seat next to the gringo’, said to his friend an old fat indigenous man who got on the bus. He took a place next to me. I was sitting with my laptop on my laps, trying to work. I could do it finally, after the man …
“There is a village behind this mountain. A Pole, Dawid, lives there. He makes goat cheese” I was told in the village. I found Dawid’s wife on the organic market where she was selling the cheese and I got myself invited to their farm. A man and his horse “Come …
About thirty years ago four friends decided to go to the mountains near Vilcabamba to the glacial lakes in Podocarpus National Park. They didn’t make it there. Feeling coming old age and lack of strength, they decided to go there once again to fulfil the drams from the youth. They …
In South America there are to valleys, where grow closely related species of trees which have hallucinogenic properties. Both species are called the same in quichua – huilco. In both valleys there are the towns called Vilcabamba. Bamba is cognate with pampa and means plain. When I first arrived to Vilcabamba, I was quite shocked …
If you want to know how I got to Judith’s farm see my previous post. I bought food for a week. I don’t trust to much the meat hanging on the hooks with plenty of flies stuck to it, so besides sweet potatoes plantains and bananas in three varieties, …
I arrived in Loja not completely woken up before sic o’clock. I started to look for a bus to Vilcabamba. There was one. I bought a ticket in the ticket office, paid 0.20$ for the access to the platforms (I’ll write more about public transport in Ecuador in the future, …
I dedicate this post to Wiktoria, whom I keep overcharging with birds photos and make l learn more about the South America’s fauna. It was around the middle of the day when I came back from Laguna de Cuicocha. That morning I’d left my cloths at a laundry and …
I was sitting in a tourist information and was trying to understand an overenthusiastic man on the opposite site of a desk. He claimed to speak in English, however I was still hearing only Spanish. Although for my questions asked in a Shakespeare’s language, he answered with even more of …
