Prolog
On November 21st, 2010 I was reading the Orange County Register. In the Travel Section I found an article, written by Alicia Chang, about their recent visit to Ecuador.
Tova & I sat around the table as I was reading the article out loud. It was a unanimous vote: We must go and visit Ecuador.
The same day I wrote an email to “Escaped to Latin America”, that we had used for the Peru trip and asked them to send me a suggested itinerary for duration of two weeks, and Seppe, a travel consultant, responded. In the next 3 months we were fine tuning the trip and the date was set for June 9th, 2011. Seppe was very cooperative during all this time and was flexible to all changes I suggested as we progressed.
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Day 1: June 9th, 2011
We left LAX, on a COPA flight, at around 2:00 am, and landed in Panama City at 9:00 AM where we connected to our final flight, which arrived in Quito, Ecuador at around 11:30 AM. The flights were very pleasant. After going through immigration and custom we met with our guide Carlos Avila and our driver Rasner.