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Overview
Travel
Tips
Embassy
Money
Health
Safety
Exhibitions
Markets
Events
Ethnicity
Society
History
Forum
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In What's
up I
try to give you general information about this country,
similar to what
you may find in any Travel Guide books.
It should be of some interest to people, who plan to visit Ecuador.
The first few chapters are fairly straightforward, like Travel
Tips where you find useful
travel and general facts for visitors.
In Embassy
there are locations, working hours
(if you can call it work, what
are our pampered diplomats do) and telephone numbers of various country's
diplomatic missions.
What to bring in currency and how much, is dealt with in
Money.
The section on Health
intends to give you common sense
pre-caution measures, you should take
in our country but also news
of any new outbreak of diseases in the country.
Personal
Safety
is becoming unfortunately more and more an issue and you find here my
thoughts on how best to behave to avoid problems and other issues you
ought to be aware of.
The location, opening times and exhibits of the various
institutions, like museums, galleries and zoological parks are shown in
Exhibitions.
Markets
does not deal with stocks and bonds but Indian handicrafts and artwork
and where you can find them and what days the market is on.
Events
features a calendar of upcoming concerts, bullfights, football games and
town festivals. It is also a guide for people, who like to join our own planned tours
and trips, where spaces are still available.
Ethnicity deals with the present-day representations
of aboriginal Indian groups and other distinct minorities, who arrived
later.
In the chapter of Society
I present my thoughts on politics, economics and life of
the Ecuadorian society in general.
History gives you a short summary of past events so you
may understand the present better.
Last but not least I provide you with a Forum,
where you can express yourself in and tell about your adventures and experiences
you made in Ecuador. Humor me and others with your insights.
In some sections there are links to
related Websites but expect most of them to be in Spanish as it happens
to be one of the official languages of Ecuador and the one most widely
used (Quechua is the other one).
By the way, how did you like this first
crumb of information presented here, if you did, click on and
enrich your knowledge of our small but beloved South American country.
Note: Some chapters are
incomplete as there exist a lot of information and as this is a personal e-project of mine, time is often a
missing factor. But the already existing pages should be worth your time to enter and if
you need more exact information write me an E-mail
and I try to answer it that way.
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