Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
Participants who collected GPS waypoints may have some idea as to how many miles we actually drove. Ecuador is a small country (about the size of Colorado) and we only covered the four provinces south of Guayaquil. It wasn't so much distance, but just how long it takes to get from one birding location to another. Curvy mountain roads, many of which were under construction, getting stuck behind slow-moving vehicles, speed bumps in every village . . . all conspired to make it seem like we would never get there. Once we finally got there, though, we saw tons of birds, so it was all worth the wait.