http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica Ryan and Bri, South America, Two Thousand Niner Wed, 20 May 2009 02:19:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We stayed a week in Quito, Ecuador.  I think I can say that so far it's been the only bigger city in South America that I've actually liked.  People generally left us alone (in most other places they try and sell us stuff with force), it was quieter (honking seems ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/05/20/ecuador-quito-semana-santa-terrifying/ If you were to look up "Quilotoa" on Wikipedia, I'm sure you would find something like this: Quilotoa (IPA [kiloˈtoa]) is a water-filled caldera and the westernmost volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. The 3 kilometres (2 mi) wide caldera was formed by the collapse of this dacite volcano following a catastrophic VEI-6 eruption ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/05/18/ecuador-the-quilotoa-crater/ In the last post about the same subject I wrote something like this: In the town of Baños in Ecuador, the hip thing to do is rent a bike and hit the highway between Baños and Puyo.  Puyo is over 60km away, but most of it is downhill.  Along the way ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/05/17/ecuador-biking-banos-to-puyo-extended-edition/ In the town of Baños in Ecuador, the hip thing to do is rent a bike and hit the highway between Baños and Puyo.  Puyo is over 60km away, but most of it is downhill.  Along the way you see different waterfalls and sights.  There's also this crazy cable car ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/05/04/ecuador-biking-banos-to-puyo/ We took a bus from Cartagena to Santa Marta so we could go on the famous Ciudad Perdida hike.  Santa Marta isn't overally impressive from what we saw, but the hotel we stayed at was near the ocean and the sunset was amazing. One of the major cool things to do ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/04/16/santa-marta-and-the-lost-city-ciudad-perdida-trek/ It's been a while since I've posted anything. In fact, we're in Ecuador right now, but I haven't done a single post about our times in Colombia.  Hold onto your pantalones... We flew into Cartagena from San Jose, Costa Rica at about 11pm, and we felt a little uneasy about that ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/04/11/cartagena-colombia-and-friends/ We have made it to the other coast! The sunny and dry Pacific Coast.  We decided to go to Montezuma and the trip there was, well, bouncy.  Three girls from our last hostel in La Fortuna were on the bus so we travelled with them and were happy to have their company. It was a long ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/18/bri-says-2/ On our way back to San Jose from Montezuma we decided to stay in Puntarenas (Poont-ah-ray-nuss) for a night, just for the hell of it.  Puntarenas in a post town, and most people would only come here to catch a ferry or boat to the Nicoya Peninsula and go to a ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/18/i-lost-my-anus-in-puntarenas-costa-rica/ We had read about all kinds of places on the pacific coast of Costa Rica. This is where the sun really shines, and because of that the information we gathered was that a lot of the coast was getting more busy, more expensive and more touristy every year. ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/16/montezuma-the-pacific-coast-party-town-in-costa-rica/ We spent a couple nights in La Fortuna which is suppose to be quite a touristy place. They have all kinds of Canopy tours and such, and it is the town situated by Volcano Arenal. However, it rained heavily the entire time we were there. I never ... http://ryanbosinger.com/southamerica/2009/03/15/la-fortuna-to-the-moon/