Our 4/5 hour tour lasted all day!!! Excellent company who are very quick to answer emails and take care of their guests.As far as ocean getaways and beach vibes go, Ecuador goes largely under the radar. Monti Christi where some bought hats and some had empanadas and coffee. There is a great monument aka mausoleum for him here as well. He was killed in 1912, dragged through the streets and burned.
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He built a train system, organized free education for all including girls, he got the vote for women and I believe the Indians. From here we go to the hills above Monti Christi to visit the cultural center that tells some of their history especially surrounding their president 1895 to 1912. From there we could have continued down to pick up our bus, but instead we had to walk back up and pick up this fellow and return to where we started. One of our group powered out and we left him behind at the top of a hill while we went down to see the monkeys.
They suspect El Niño but they also said when they have rains that insects and disease can be spread through the area. It was only a month ago that 44 monkeys died and the forest was closed while they tried to figure out why. We see another female wandering along the treetops. Mom and baby are quiet and enjoying a restful afternoon. He says this is very different than the city heat and he likes to be at the beach when it is hot. Mauro that he is a local and should not be whining. The trail winds down the hill and the humidity is very high and it is hot.
There are later holes which are the homes of ants and little scorpions. There are mate trees with huge fruits, There are holes in the ground where there are tiny tarantulas and he shows us pictures of two huge ones, one more dangerous than the other. We see bamboo, huge bamboo which is covered by diapers, a course material which is unfriendly to the touch. Now they are joined by butterflies of many other colors. The entire time we are out we have been surrounded by white butterflies. We move along to Pacoche forest and pick up our guide. Downstairs we watched a video about the history of the people who make the hats. A good way to keep children from moving from the area as well as continue the hat tradition. Young people train in hat making after school. We enjoyed a great demo of how they make the hats starting from selecting the reeds, splitting them, boiling, sulfering them, stating the weave, the top, the crown, trimming the ends, washing them and ironing them before they are pounded and put in a press. We drove down the coast to Pile where they make the hats. Angie and Mauro were our excellent guides.Our group was complete and we got on our bus. We had a sign in our bus window with our names and they were on the street doing the same. We got on the fourth and fifth bus and met up with our tour guides.
We finally got off the ship and joined the line waiting for the three small buses taking us to the port gate. About 9:30 we noticed that there were people on shore so we started down. Museum/cultural center monte Criste Fish market Rain forest Getting off the ship took some time. The fish market was our since we were late off the ship. The amazing thing is the tour put the rainforest back in and kept the Pile visit as well. After some study it was determined the extreme weather had caused the deaths and it was safe for us and the monkeys to allow visitors. A week before we were given the good news that the forest was open.
Everyone in our group decided to stay on the tour. A visit to pile to see hats made was substituted. When I booked this tour the company had only three reviews and look at it now! A month prior to our trip we were informed that the rain forest was closed due to the number of monkeys found dead.
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