Monday, April 7, 2008

Canoa, Ecuador

Ok, so this is offically my last beach town before heading back to the states, and I LOVE IT! Its going to be really hard to leave. It took about 3 buses and many sweaty hours to get here from Monatnita, but it was well worth it. A small blip at our first hostal, it was INFESTED with mosquitos. Very tramatising, i am absolutly covered in bites. But we survived, moved to a nicer hostal, and are now back with the living. We spend our days lounging under colorful tents watching the waves, swimming in the warm ocean, and buying treats from vendors that walk up and down the beaches. The tropical, ocean influence reaches to the resturants as well, we drink coconut smoothies, lap up passion fruit popsicles, and sit down to the worlds best arroz con mariscos (shrimp and rice- to die for!). Theres not much to the acutal town, but hostals. No shopping, no high class dining, no tourist traps. It has been a welcome respite from the usual touristy places we visit. There´s always a hammock open for napping, and a cool beverage to be found easily to refresh. You may have ants crawling on your dinner table, a cockaroach crawling in your room, or bats chirping next to your hammock at night, but your so relaxed from your day at the beach, that it all just seems to not really matter. aaahhh paradise.
Pic 1: Beach tents, we always had a pink one :)
Pic 2: Boogie Boards lined the beach
Pic 3: the long strech of Canoa Beach


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