I thought it would be nice to stay put for a little while learning Spanish, ideally by the beach. After a bit of research, we found Montañita in Ecuador as the best option.
It was a big effort to get there. There weren't any direct flights to the nearest city Guayaquil from where we were in Uruguay. So we ended up taking 3 flights and a 3 hour transfer to get to the town. But it was nice to hit 25+ degree temperatures and even nicer to be by the ocean!
The town itself was ok. A little too much a young party town with lots of young twenty somethings looking to party all week long.
We stayed in the Cabañas owned by the school we registered with. It was a really nice environment as they had a pool and lots of tropical plants making the garden area a lot cooler then outside.
School was tough but quite good. I still think my Spanish is crap but there is definitely an improvement. School did get fun when my classmate started talking about wanting to kill the school intern - who she'd been seeing - because he was sleeping with another student who she was friends with! The atmosphere in the Cabañas wasn't the same after this happened.
The best thing about staying there was taking Aatya swimming almost daily in the swimming pool. It felt at the end she was back to the level she reached at the end of her swimming classes. I just hope she doesn't forget everything again in the next 3 months.
We discovered as well that Aatya is scared of the ocean. Maybe it's a natural thing to be scared of it but she would cry every time we tried to put her down to get her feet wet.
We've left Montañita and probably at the right time. We spent 2 weeks there all up and it was starting to feel past its expiry date. I guess when you visit the same restaurant 3 times, it's time to go.
Here are some of pics including a really fantastic sunset!
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