The Ecuador Diaries: Part 5

It's Saturday, we got up early to get a bus to Los Frailes, a famed beach about an hour northeast of Las Tunas. The sand there was really soft but at the expense of being fine and "sticky." (There is still some in the grooves of my sandals) It gets in everywhere and never totally cleans off. It was uber peaceful and soothing, dozing off in the sun, listening to the ocean, feeling the water lap around my ankles. With the past week being far more eventful than most of us were prepared for, this a fucking awesome stress reliever. After Los Frailes we go to Agua Blanca (although there was no "white water" anywhere), an archeological site showing the some three millenia that people having been living in this region. We had a guide take us on a round trip to various sites that had been the foundations of temples and other buildings. On the way home, we stopped in Puerto Lopez and I went to a phone/internet place and called home, my folks weren't home, so I talked to my brother, then called Dani, which I'd promised to do while I was here. After hearing from Canada, I have begin to realize how much I miss home...