This is another guest post by Marie! I am looking to paint a picture of the last week, a week of visiting amazing towns, biking, soothing ourselves in hot springs, which has been highlighted by meeting various kind and interesting people. And since a picture is worth a thousand words, I decided to make this […]
Our second week in El Airo was great, despite the fact that it rained everyday.We worked with a local farmer woman called Orfa, doing some weeding on her farm and planting of coffee. After we finished planting she told us we could come back in a couple of years and harvest the coffee that we […]
This is a guest post from Marie! We arrived yesterday in Loja (pronounced Lo-ha), but with impressions from La Guaca still fresh in mind. We had a going away party, a despedida, on the 29th, our last day in the community, and all of the families who make up the coffee co-op joined together to […]
Marie and I arried in the peacefull community of El Airo a week ago. We took a 9 hour bus ride from the coastal city of Guayaquil to Loja – twisting and climbing higher into the Andes mountain range. Then eventually we started descending to the valley where the city of Loja is nestled in. […]
