Category: Travel Diary

  • Quito, Ecuador: Day 6-Day Trip to Quilotoa

    Quito, Ecuador: Day 6-Day Trip to Quilotoa

    Our week has been full of activities and our trip is about halfway over. On today’s list of events is From Quito: Quiltoa Lagoon Full-Day Tour with Lunch. This is an all day tour (11 hrs) so this is the only thing we planned for today. We had the option…

  • Quito, Ecuador: Day 5-Papallacta Hot Springs

    Quito, Ecuador: Day 5-Papallacta Hot Springs

    Today we had a couple of activities going on with the first one being Visit Papallacta Hot Springs with a Travel Expert via Airbnb Experiences. Alejandro who was our travel expert for this said he’d meet us outside our Airbnb at 8:30am to pick us up. I didn’t get enough…

  • Quito, Ecuador: Day 4-Oh Otavalo

    Quito, Ecuador: Day 4-Oh Otavalo

    Waking up this morning, I felt like I didn’t get enough sleep (I didn’t because I went to sleep around 2am and woke up at 5:55am). Today was going to be a full day as we were doing the Otavalo Culture, Lagos and Traditional Market in One Day tour which…

  • Quito, Ecuador: Day 3-Old Town Quito Tour

    Quito, Ecuador: Day 3-Old Town Quito Tour

    After quite a long and adventurous day yesterday we were happy to somewhat sleep in this morning. We had a Quito Old Town Highlights & Food Tour scheduled for 10am today and our meeting spot was at Teatro Sucre in Old Town. The best option was to take the bus…

  • Quito, Ecuador: Travel Day/Day 1/Day 2-Welcome to Ecuador/Cotopaxi Volcano Hike

    Quito, Ecuador: Travel Day/Day 1/Day 2-Welcome to Ecuador/Cotopaxi Volcano Hike

    Travel Day:The time has come for the Ecuador trip I had planned with my mom and if you follow my travels then you know that I made it back just in the knick of time from Turks and Caicos (thanks to Hurricane Erin extending my stay three days there). By…

  • Turks and Caicos: Day 5-Anxiety Overload

    Turks and Caicos: Day 5-Anxiety Overload

    First let me start by saying that I’m very grateful to have been able to come on this trip. Turks and Caicos wasn’t on my radar of places (not to say I never would’ve come) but I definitely wouldn’t have had the accomodations in which I’ve had which was outstanding…

  • Turks and Caicos: Day 4-Enjoy the Moment

    Turks and Caicos: Day 4-Enjoy the Moment

    I am such a night owl and have pretty much stuck to my routine like I do at home with going to bed late (2am). I slept until around 6:15am as I wanted to get a sunrise picture but it was windy and cloudy this morning with Hurricane Erin and…

  • Turks and Caicos: Day 3-Parrot Cay

    Turks and Caicos: Day 3-Parrot Cay

    Last night was ok, I was up and down and in and out of sleep. Thankfully each time I got up it was easy to go back to sleep. I slept in until breakfast at 10:30am because I figured if I’m going to Parrot Cay to lay out in the…

  • Turks and Caicos: Day 2-Indulgence At It’s Finest

    Turks and Caicos: Day 2-Indulgence At It’s Finest

    I didn’t get the best sleep last night, I woke up and wasn’t feeling well so I took some meds and laid back down. I got a chance to see the sunrise but was too tired and lazy to take a photo (plus it was foggy/cloudy). I got up around…

  • Turks and Caicos: Day 1-Living La Villa Loca

    Turks and Caicos: Day 1-Living La Villa Loca

    Turks and Caicos wasn’t on my radar or list of places but a lot of places typically aren’t. My aunt told me about the possibility of going sometime in August earlier this year and by then I already had my trip to Ecuador booked from Black Friday last year for…