Sun, sand, sea...

I spent the weekend before last at the beach with Josh and 4 other girls and guys from our program. The beach is called Tonsupa, and is on the northern coast of Ecuador, not too close to Colombia though! It was very very small, but also felt very safe and tranquilo as they say often here. Being so small, it was also quite poor with dirt roads, kids walking around barefoot and many stray dogs. Once you got off the main strip of 3 blocks facing the beach, the houses were old, decrepid and there was not much to see. We got around in little open air taxis that were pulled by men riding their motorbikes. Mostly, we just hung around on the beach and ate freshly made ceviche (shrimp mixed with onion, tomato, lime juice and yummy spices) and other seafood for really cheap ($3.50 for ceviche -$6 in a restaurant for a big plate of fish, calamari or shrimp). Nothing else too exciting to report. A basic beach trip with not much else than the sun, sand and sea. Definitely not the tropical beach we were all expecting but a good time nonetheless!