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Warnings Or Dangers: Mira por donde pongas sus pies ! Fais gaffe !
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  • Updated by Maillekeul on Aug 11, 2003
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  • Ecuador - One metre and a half long... 1m50 de long
  • One metre and a half long... 1m50
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  • Be careful, sometimes, you are so impressed by the landscapes that you don't look at what is just beneath your feet...
    Look at the picture and see what danger we just avoided ...

    Faut faire attention, parfois, la faune se melange avec la flore et on ne regarde plus ou on met les pieds...
    Si on regarde bien cette photo, on peut voir le danger que nous avons evite de peu...

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Don't watch too much TV ! Trop de tele tue la tele
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  • Ecuador - An old enemy... Ce vieil ennemi
  • An old enemy... Ce vieil ennemi
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  • You'll see that a lot of Ecuadorians spend their time in front of TV screens : don't try and imitate this local custom !!! There is so much to see here...

    Vous constaterez que beaucoup d'Equatoriens passent leur temps devant des ecrans de tele : ne les imitez pas !! Il y a bien trop de choses a voir ici...

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Be Careful with the insects - Les insectes
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  • Ecuador - Stanger in the night... L'envahisseur...
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  • They're everywhere and have very strange shapes...
    Also, it would be wrong to say that, at 2500 meters above the sea level, they are no mosquitos or beetles...
    Indeed, they are rare, but you can find some very interesting species, as the one I found, very late at night, on the wall of our bathroom (the body is about 10 centimeters large)...

    Ils sont partout et ont des formes etranges. Et il serait faux de dire qu'il n'y en a pas en altitude !! Ils s'y font certes rares, mais l'on peut trouver des especes interessantes, comme celle qui se baladait sur le mur de notre salle de bain (le corps mesurait environ 10 centimetres de long)...

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    Warnings Or Dangers: How to deal with the Banks (1) - Les Banques (1)
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  • The first branch of the State is the Bank. When you know this, you better understand the external debt of the country ! Bankers tend to go away with the cash in their saves, put there by the State, public companies or honnest citizens. Here, the bankrupty law often works for the banks... And notwithstanding the fact that the State, taking some incredible economic decisions, may freeze the current accounts....

    La succursale premiere de l'Etat, c'est la Banque. Et on comprend mieux pourquoi le pays est crible de dettes ! Les banquiers ont une facheuse tendance a se casser avec tout le fric que l'Etat, les societes publiques ou les braves citoyens ont bien voulu deposer au sein de leur futur-ex etablissement. Ici, les faillites de banques, c'est courant, sans compter que l'Etat, par des mesures economiques hallucinantes, peut forcer les banques a ne plus exercer leur metier aupres des petits particuliers, qui voient leurs avoirs geles pendant un an !!

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    Warnings Or Dangers: How to deal with the Banks (2) - Les Banques (2)
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  • Except from managing the museums, banks also receive the tax declarations and are the managers of the social security system. Each month, hundreds of women wait in front of the banks' offices, exchanging babies before entering the office and begging for the monthly ammount givent to unemployed women with children (about 10 to 12 USD a month). This is a real show, in which elderly people play also their part, coming for their retirement pension (15 USD a month !!). The queues are not prioritary and can last 8 days or so...

    Hormis leur role de gestionnaire de musees, les banques recoivent aussi les declarations d'impots et gerent le systeme d'allocations sociales, et ceci, dans des conditions douteuses. Chaque debut de mois, des centaines de femmes se pretent leurs enfants (ou petits freres), avant de penetrer dans les banques, afin de faire valoir leur statut de mere inactive pour recuperer un pecule de 10 a 12 USD. Il faut voir ces files d'attentes spectaculaires, dans lesquelles on trouve egalement des personnes agees (pension de vieillesse : 15 USD par mois !), files d'attentes non prioritaires qui durent en moyenne 8 jours.

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    Warnings Or Dangers: How to deal with the Banks (3) - Les Banques (3)
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  • The tip is there, in this third part... If you see big queues in front of the banks' offices, do not hesitate to ignore them, if you want to withdraw cash money. Sometimes, these queues occure in front of the ATM... but, there is nothing to do but waiting, in this case !!

    On doit donc passer devant ces files d'attente quand on vient juste retirer de l'argent. Parfois, ces files ont lieu devant les distributeurs (le montant etant directement credite sur les comptes) et la, c'est la meme galere !!

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Be careful with... Attention au...
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  • Ecuador - Trapped... J'l'ai eue !
  • Trapped... J'l'ai eue !
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  • ... er... no, that was only Stef Reporter....

    ... euh, non, c'etait seulement Stef Reporter...

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Guaranda : Careful to water ! Attention aux jets !
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  • Written by Maillekeul on Mar 22, 2004
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  • Ecuador - The yellow riffle - Le fusil jaune
  • The yellow riffle - Le fusil jaune
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  • They loooove throwing things at you, during Carnaval. In Guaranda, we were lucky enough, it was only water... But it was raining so much that we didn't really understand why they went on with water bombs or water riffles !!! That's weird !

    Ils adoooorent vous balancer des trucs, pendant Carnaval. A Guaranda, on a eu de la chance, finalement, c'etait que de l'eau. Mais comme il pleuvait grave, on comprenait pas pourquoi ils continuaient avec leurs bombes et fusils a eau !! C'est dingue !

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Mompiche : I might be there - Chuis ptet la !
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  • I am notariously dangerous... Avoid me (and let me enjoy Mompiche !!!) !!

    Je suis notoirement dangereux ... Evitez-moi (et laissez moi en paix a Mompiche !!) !!

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    Warnings Or Dangers: Quito : Pollution
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  • Written by Maillekeul on Mar 22, 2004
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  • Ecuador - And it's not the worst ! Et ce n'est pas le pire !
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  • Pollution is just unbearable in Quito. It's mostly coming from the buses (old ones), and also from cars (olds ones too). Only one bus company is non-polluting : it's not enough, and I don'tu understand that the municipality doesn't give much more attention to this matter, as it's so proud to declare that the city belongs to the Patrimony of Humanity (UNESCO), whereas the pollution has permanent damaging effets on the concerned buildings.

    La pollution est tout simplement insupportable a Quito. Elle vient principalement des bus (vieux et sans pots catylitiques) et aussi de pas mal de voitures (meme probleme). Une seule ligne de bus est notoirement non-polluante. C'est trop peu et je ne comprends pas que la municipalite, si fiere de sa cite, patrimoine de l'humanite, ne saisisse pas le probleme a bras de corps, eu egards aux repercussions nefastes de la pollution sur les edifices classes patrimoines culturels et historiques.

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    Comments for Maillekeul about Ecuador
    South-America Thu Feb 21, 2008 18:26 UTC
     what's no bar in quito like these days?
    irisbe Sun Dec 26, 2004 15:15 UTC
     It is always fun reading your tips :) even the warnings can sound funny although they are au fond serious :) those banks uh... Nice page!
    Jim_Eliason Sun Dec 19, 2004 22:33 UTC
     great tips!
    11dana Fri Oct 22, 2004 21:14 UTC
     Interesting&funny in the same time.I became fan of your travels in South-America!
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