On our final two days in country, we finished up our project presentations that we had been working on as well as putting the finishing touches on our traditional macagwa pots. I decided to make mine with a clay lizard and snake on the inside and paint them with simple traditional diagonal line patterns. We…
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A Canoe down the River, and the journey of a lifetime
We began the first day of the journey with a light breakfast at the lodge before loading all of our dry-bagged gear onto a bus and taking the two hour ride to our jumping off point. It was pouring rain while we left, and we spent the better part of the morning on a road…
River Hikes and Good Times
On the day before we travelled to visit the Waorani nation, our group ventured out to the Canuayacu river with two local guides to go on an awesome river hike. We got to wade through waist deep waters, swim through one of the deepest parts, and then have diving competitions at the end in a…
¡Bienvenido a Iyarina!
After a fantastic time around Quito, Picalqui, and Otovalo, we boarded our bus and made our way to the Iyarina Lodge, the part of the trip that I’ve been anticipating the most. During the bus ride, which was filled with twisting and windy mountain roads that put a little fear into me, we got to…
Chocolate, Roses, New Friends, and more!
We started off the second day of our Ecuadorian Adventure with a stop at Yumbo’s Chocolate, where we did a tasting of a variety of different cacao percentages and learned about the cacao fermentation process that creates the chocolate we all know and love! We followed that up with a quick bus ride to the…
Day 1 in Ecuador!
After a fantastic sleep from a full day of travel, I woke up and got ready to experience the city that I had been thinking about for so long. We started our day with a brief tour of the San Franciscan Church, followed by a more in depth tour with our guide Dylan, where we…
Ready to Explore Ecuador
Hello, everyone! My name is Kayhaan Farahbakhshian, I am from Sudbury, Massachusetts, and I am a first-year student in the College of Business Administration studying Global Management and Marketing. This summer, I’m prepared to embark on one of the biggest trips of my lifetime and travel to Ecuador with around 15 other students from Pitt…