Travel Videos

Over the past year, we’ve published a number of driving videos around Cuenca Ecuador. In this video, we want to share something a little different. This video is a complete timelapse of the two-hour double-decker bus trip around Cuenca. This post has two videos. One at normal speed (10 frames per second) and another at half speed [...]

Have you ever eaten prickly pear (genus opuntia) cactus fruit? I never knew cactus plants produced edible fruit until we moved to Ecuador. The only cactus plants I had ever seen in Canada were in little pots, growing indoors. When researching this post I found out that some prickly pear cactus do grow in Canada, [...]

So it’s raining in Cuenca, Ecuador. (This happens kinda often.) What is there to do in a wet and cloudy Cuenca? 12 Rainy Day Activities in Cuenca Ecuador Here are our twelve favorite things to do in Cuenca – on a rainy day. Go for Coffee: There are lots of great places to go for coffee. [...]

Floreana is a small isolated island in the Galapagos. It has a very interesting history and is one of the most memorable places we’ve ever visited. The Galapagos islands are famous for their unique animals. We explored three islands and had unforgettable animal encounters on each of them, but none as breathtaking as on Floreana! Perhaps [...]

Sure the Galapagos has amazing animals and incredible landscapes. But what about bodyboarding? :) You might also enjoy: How to choose the best camera for travel [Buyers Guide] Galapagos GoPro BodyBoarding (with my Daughter) During a few free hours on Isabela Island, Drew and I went bodyboarding. And it was one of the highlights of our [...]

A great way to see Quito is from above. The TelefériQo (a combination of teleférico and Quito) runs up the foothills of Pichincha Volcano and offers a crazy view of Quito. 5 Fast Facts: Quito TelefériQo It  is a gondola lift (also known as a cable car). Travels 2,237 linear meters in just 8 minutes Rises [...]

Ecuador has a lot of delicious cultural dishes. Living in the Andes mountains means we are used to the food eaten in the sierra. There is not that much seafood on the menu up here. Recently we were invited to try some coastal food at a restaurant in Cuenca called El Sabor De Las Costeñitas (roughly [...]

We have lived and traveled in the beautiful Sierra (mountains) region of Ecuador for almost 5 years. This post is all about how breathtaking it is! The Sierra takes in the Ecuador’s Andes mountains and the Inter Andean highlands. We’ve traveled from Azauy to Cañar to Quito and we’ve put some of our favorite photos [...]

Do you like spiders? Now we have some new photos – and a video – of the largest spider we’ve ever seen. This spider had a 4 inch footprint and it’s body was shaped like a crab shell. It didn’t have the typical extended abdomen like every other spider we’ve seen. Update (May 1, 2014): [...]