Why not to Peru?
On Saturday, the 20th of October, we spent our time with Laurence and Sebastien – two French backpackers passing by Cuenca. Talking for hours the topic changed to extending permissions of 90-days to stay in Ecuador. Most of foreigners are allowed to stay in this country 90 days with a possibility to extend this permission for another 90 days for free (max 180 days/year). French couple has already...
Reggaeton and Vallenato – music of Latin America
October 27, 2007
Topics: Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, South America, Website
This time not much of text, but more sounds. As we promised in the previous message, this time we will present you two styles of music which are following us through our journey in Latin America. Firstly – REGGAETON As we understood, this type of music originaly comes from Puerto Rico island. It is kind of a mix of hip-hop, probably rap and everything else what has a rhythm. We do not really...
Che Guevara – hero of Latin America
October 25, 2007
Topics: Cuba, Ecuador, South America
We guess most of you have heard at least something about Che Guevara. He is, of course, already dead, but in South America his soul is still wandering around. Specially in revolutionary Venezuela, and also here, in Ecuador. Actually, there is a big friendship between the presidents of these two countries. The left-oriented Ecuadorian leader Correa is making political-changes similar to the ones made...
In search of the Escobar family
October 10, 2007
Topics: El Salvador, Projects
Unil, Gerson, Fernando, Ercilia photo for Fernando's brother During our five months stay in Copper Bank, Belize, we became good friends with one of the poorest families in the village. We shared joy and sorrow, and short before continuing our trip we found out that Fernando, the father of the family (originally from El Salvador), had lost contact to his family a couple of years ago. He did...
Colombian surprise
you see how happy they make Not long ago we had two wonderful visitors: Angelica from Colombia, and Cedric from France. One evening we all went to a gallery of alternative art here in Cuenca. It is called “El Prohibido” (“Forbidden”), which at the same time is a bar, where you can chill comfortably on different styled couches (i.e. in a coffin), and drink a beer. This gallery-bar has...
Hard black walnut
Have you ever tried black walnut? It looks a bit like an ordinary walnut, but this one is really black and super hard. First time we heard about it one year ago in Guatemala, when Katja got diarrhea after brushing teethes with contaminated water. We found out that this walnut destroys the parasites in the intestine, and it really did after Katja treated her problem with pills made out of black walnut...
