This is the first in an ongoing list of blog posts for our four month trip. We left Amsterdam early on June 24th around 8am with four big suitcases and also some heavy hand baggage. We managed to bring all the books, spectrophotometer, microscope, medicines and also our own stuff without any problems or extra costs. They didn´t even look at our customs forms! There were some questions about the microscope when it went through the x-ray, though.
We arrived pretty tired at our hostel in Quito basically 24 hours later. Today we checked out Quito a bit while it was sunny, but then it started raining, thundering and even hailing (this is not normal here, but especially for our first day). We have delivered the spectrophotometer and pipettes already, so we have less to carry around.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Start of our trip
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Hi, it's always nice to read about people from all over the world visiting us Ecuadorians. I hope you have a really nice time here.
The first thing I'd recommend you to do is go to a bookstore or a "Fybeca" drugstore and buy a pocket guide called "Guia informativa de Quito". It has helped a lot when I've been to Quito. It's Spanish only, but has lots of folded maps.
I would also recommend you to make photocopies of all your important documents and keep them in a safe place, just in case. I've done the same thing when going abroad.
Quito has a beautiful Andean landscape around it, enjoy it. Welcome to Ecuador!
Hey you two, I'm so glad that you arrived safe and sound. I'll be thinking of you often and following your progress through this blog. Don't take any unnecessary chances and take really good care of each other. Love you lots... Cammy
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