Puerto Lopez, Ecuador
Beach at Puerto Lopez
My second overnight trip and it was an 8-hour bus ride to Puerto Lopez on the southern coast of Ecuador, which is just below the Ecuador and back to sea level. We were really lucky and had warm sunshine on our first two days of a four day trip even in the rainy season. (It’s rainy season along the coast but in the Andes it’s summer) The last time I was on the beach was just over a year ago in Cuba and it brought back such good memories of the beach. But the highlight was the new terrain that we explored hiking in Machililla National Park, a dry forest park which used to cover much of South America before extreme human development. We made it to beautiful Isla de la Plata, known as “the poor man’s Galapagos” because of the similar bird and wildlife and saw some exotic birds real close. A nice relaxing trip. Other stories forthcoming, I just need to write them up.
