Straddling the Equator
/It’s that part of our current ambitious two-year walkabout where we experience several firsts!
A first time on the continent of South America. Panama City was as close as we’d previously gotten.
And a first time south of the Equator in the western hemisphere. We were in Bali way back in 2013. And Rich was in Australia and New Zealand BP (before Paul).
We are straddling the equator for the next several weeks. With three weeks remaining in Ecuador we’ll then spend the last days up north in Bogota, Colombia. We’ve heard great things about Bogota from other travelers. We initially thought we’d split our six-week in the northern Andes evenly between both countries. But as zippy as the overall itinerary may seem, we don’t rush. At all.
So Ecuador ends up charming us for five weeks. Sorry Colombia but you got sloppy seconds this time around. Sometime down the road we’ll circle back and experience Medellin (and everyone raves about it!) and along the northern coast, including a “secret” naturist place up the coast from Apartadó, near the Panama border. Someday.
From Bogota we fly direct to Madrid. You can read about our onward travel in more detail in our previous post. Just keep scrolling.
For now, tomorrow we leave the (very) outskirts of Ecuador’s amazon jungle and head downhill to the coast to a fun gay hotel in Montanita apparently with an unadvertised clothing optional pool. We think it’s the only one in the country. Then onward to the Galapagos islands!
Next post will be after Egypt unless we’re beamed up to the mothership from the Great Pyramid!
