Canoa Beach Manabí Ecuador

The beach of Canoa is a paradise of 17 kilometers of tranquility, nature and fun in the province of Manabí, near the city of Bahía de Caráquez and San Vicente. Ecotourism and the excellent waves for surfers are some of the main offers of this place.

The town has a very active nightlife. The huts along the white sand beach house clubs and restaurants where local dishes and drinks are served until late at night.

Its geography is propitious to fly in hang gliders and paragliding, jumping from the cliff on the beach. On overflights to the north end you pass through a cave that is home to resting bats and blue-footed boobies that you can visit when the tide is low.

The beach is characterized by its extensive white sand that covers about 17 kilometers in length reaching the beach of Briceño and San Vicente.

You can also rent bicycles in some shops, you can take the bike path from Canoa - Briceño - San Vicente to Bahia de Caraquez - cross the Caras Bridge (the route is 15km). You can also visit the communities and villages near the canoe or visit other routes in the countryside.

On Saturdays there is a market of organic products on the main road.

The best time to surf is between December and May, when the waves reach more than two meters high and the conditions for surfing and swimming are the best.

Some options from the Canoa Beach with us are: Bicycle rental, Bike tour, Kayak excursion, Horseback riding, Fishing, Surf lessons, among other full day tours to the Waterfalls and Natural Reserves.

Lake San Pablo Imbabura It is the largest lake in the province. The Indians go fishing early in the morning in their totora canoes and also take a bath and wash their clothes on the shores of the Lake during the day. It is located 4 km from the city of Otavalo, is surrounded by the volcano Imbabura and totoras used to make handicrafts. The fauna that the lagoon has is eminently ichthyological like rainbow trout and carp. The variety of birds can be admired as cormorants, crows, white egret, gauchos, ducks, mallards, hummingbirds, sea urchins, flag cullingos and amphibians that fill the lagoon and its surroundings. I invite you to visit this lagoon and be part of the tourism that our Country pose since with so much space we have much to know Ecuador loves life.

The Dance in the community of Zuleta Imbabura Ecuador a whole tradition

It is a Quichua dance of the province of Imbabura. It is performed during the months of August and September in honor of the pachamama (mother earth) and the inti (sun). This dance represents the work of the field from the preparation of the land worked with the strength of men, the sowing done by women, the harvest of corn or wheat made by relatives, neighbors and friends and finally the celebration in which Usually drinks aguardiente and the traditional chicha until the wee hours of the afternoon.


Dance, presence and elegance, strength of an Indian identity. Their dance, their movements express the presence of the Quichua man and woman of equal gallantry, manifest the relationship between space, time, sky and earth "the resistance of an experience full of energy and courage to continue. Dance of multi-colored polleras from a community of Hope "Zuleta" in the province of Imbabura, where men and women celebrate the religious and social celebrations of the Community wearing their clothes and attire "

By Martín Benalcázar

The animal's attractions

In our society we enjoy seeing animals in attractions, we pay to see animals doing or preforming something, just for our entretainment. For example, we can see animals usually in zoos or tematic packs. And the animals we see are animals that are not in their natural space/enviroment, but they are in a reduce space living in conditions that are not like their natural ones. They can not run the way they should do it or eat the same proportion and nutrition they should have, so the conditions make the animals less natural.

And we enjoy seeing the animals in other part that is not their enviroment, so we contribute to make more animals be out of their natural enviroment and far of their specie. So when you pay to go to the zoo or to a park who has animals that should not be there, you are contributing with the culture of use the animals to entretain humans.

So the next time you want to entretain your self, think in what you are doing and what are you contributing with, so the animals can have the same oportunity of be entretained in the place they belong. Because nobody want to live in a close space for the rest of their lifes, watching how other specie just enjoy seeing them there and do not care about their natural life.

Ancestral culinary culture in Ecuador

Since the time that the Spaniards still did not arrive to America, to conquer it, people who lived in these lands already had a great culture, and also a great culinary culture, that is to say that they already had rites for food and different ways of cooking it and get it.

In the times of the conquest and colonial times, the culinary culture that existed before the conquest mixed with the Spanish culinary culture resulting in dishes like the fanesca that comes from the Spanish dish called juanesca.

The bottom line is that the mix of the culinary cultures from spain and
Ecuador has made some of the most extraordinary typical dishes of the Ecuador.

Source: https://ecuatorianosenelmundo.wordpress.com/ecuador-y-su-historia/gastronomia/189-2/

Graffiti in DMQ

In this time the graffiti is one of the most iconic things in the cities. It is because the graffiti is one of the expressions of the city and the people that live in that city.

Also the  started graffiti being one the different expressions of the hip-hop culture it is the plastic art of this culture, like the rap is the music of this culture or the break dance that is the dance, but now the graffiti has become an art form that works for express the city or the country problems.

Graffiti also serves to beautify the city, and DMQ (Metropolitan District of Quito) has been supported for this purpose, this can be seen in the programs and contests that the municipality has created to paint different parts of the city or different types Of goods that the city owns as Eco buses

In conclusion this art form works for express the feelings and the thoughts that the people of the city has about different problems.

 

Well, its been a long time seen i haven´t finished a book in less that a week.

Early this week a friend gave me a book, it was best-seller and it already had a movie
The name was MazeRunner

Well the book was published in 2009

And the authore is: James Dashner

 For me, this book  represents perfectly the society.

Thomas very fist day

At the beginig I was as confused as Thomas was when he got to the arena.

Everything was supposed to have a meaning even though we haven’t know it .
Later there where so many situations in witch i wanted Thamas to break rules!. But instead he just kept his mouth close. It was really frustrating

SPOILER ALERT

And then when Teresa appeared and he knew that there was something related with her and that he should’ve go and see her and then he didn’t it as the worst.

 

At the end my favorite character is Minho.

 

Why? Simple, he actually did more things for the rest that for him self and helped Thomas alot . He is a good man(teen) after all of what he has lived.
Conclusion: It’s approved! Every one should read this book<3

The facial expressions

If we talk about facial expressions, usually you can hear that they are almost universal, that if you go to another country you will smile and the people who live there will know that the expression you make was because you are happy or you like something. But if you hear these facts, in this year, maybe you have heard it from a person who is not actualized in the information. 

Why do I say this? Because now, there is evidence about the facial expressions, like the smile that is the product of happiness, are not universal. We have believed that our expressions and the emotions that give birth that expression where caused by a biological fact, but this is also against of the new approach that have been developed in the actuality.

This new approach argues that there is not such a thing like the universal expressions and that these expressions are determined by the social and cultural context. The proofs of this are in the Trobriand Islands; here the habitants have been tested to know if their perception of the most common facial expressions (joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust) matches with the perception of other people (the majority).

The experiment to proof this is about asking a group of kids and teens to tell the emotion that one of the photographs seems to be like (one per each common emotion and expression: joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust; and a face without expression). And the results show that the 58% of the people matches the smile with joy, the 46% matches “correctly” (like the way the rest of the world will do it) sadness, 31% fear, 25% disgust and 7% anger. So the results show discordance between the matches of these Islands with the results of the rest of the world, concluding that the culture is the thing that make us thing and recognize thing as we do in this moment. 

Source: S/n, (2016), Estudio demuestra que el significado de la sonrisa no es universal, Extracted from: http://www.carasycaretas.

com.uy/estudio-demuestra-significado-la-sonrisa-no-universal/

The view of pain in our society

Right now, if we see the new book's stories and movies, we can see that they are exploting the topic of the human pain, and how the problem of the humanity is the pain we feel, and the solution for this is to do a perfect society where there is a way or a compound that make people to don't feel any kind of pain, so everybody can be and feel only happy.  In this cases there is something wrong with the fact of not feeling pain, like they can decide by their self and that they can feel anything real. Well, this usually happend because the pain that we feel and our emotion are a by our senses and perception of the world with the help of our nervous system. So when someone what to block pain, they also block other parts like our feelings.

But, what exactly is pain? Well, it is a reaction of our body when something is attempting to your body safeness. So it works like an alert to us, to now that something could hurt us, and we feel it because of our special nerves called nociceptors (that start the electric impulse in the nervous system), that emit neurotransmitters (substance P, that is the one that trasmits pain) that travel through our nervous until reach the brain and produce pain in the specific area, where the impulse starts. And basically, that is how physical pain works. And the emotional pain is more psycological.

It is part of our nature and help us to survive, don't get hurt and prevent a worst damage in our body, to our self.

So pain, is not a thing that make us imperfect humans, like the media is trying to express, and because this works are well acepted by a lot of people, reflected on the fact that some books are best seller or that some series are very watched. The good thing, is that at the end of some of these stories, someone goes against of this model of "perfect society", and get back the pain that was stole from them. Like in the movie "The giver" and in the serie (based in a book) called "The 100".

Concluding, I thing that the perfect society should not be build by the miss of our natural perception that is pain, because we survive because of it, and it help us in many ways. So I thing that in our actually society and collective mind, we should start to accept pain as a normal thing and not like a bad thing.

2Pac in Rap

The Hip-Hop is a genre that has been in the music world for a long time, all of we have heard or know at least one Hip-Hop song but do we know who people are the most big exponents of this music genre.

Well this genre has a lot of big artist like Eminem, 50Cent, Snoop Dogg and others, but this time I am going to talk about one of the most famous and iconic artist, 2Pac Shakur, this man is considered by many people like the father Hip-Hop with N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S Big.

Tupac Amaru Shakur or 2 Pac was born in Harlem, New York, USA in 1971. His first album was 2pacalypse, this album wasn't an exit in sells like his future albums, but it was the album that will start his prolific carrer.

Like it was already said 2Pac was one of the biggest artists in the Hip-Hop history, he and he starred one of the most famous conflicts in rap history. This conflict was with the notorious big,  it started when 2Pac was one of the victims of a crime where he was shoot, and notorious big dedicate him the song WHO SHOOT YA. This conflict started the rivalry of the west coast (2Pac) and the east coast (N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S Big), and gave us one of the most famous songs that 2Pac has made that is HIT EM UP.

Unfortunately 2Pac was murdered in 1996 but he left us a lot of good songs that unlike other songs talk about real issues of the society

I want to tell you a little of one of my best experiences that I have had all my life. I want to start saying that the ocean for me represents everything for me Seen i was small and i want to set irt will be until a fu something burn to be part of it for this trip to the province of Manabi With my dear father Oscar in order to go fishing in one of the largest coral reefs in Ecuador, for this we stayed in La Ciudadela de Jama we hired a boat we left at 5am to paradise beach near the respective place for that we bought Like bait shrimp raised alive they spent hours and we did not fish anything we were almost 2 hours but suddenly to my pope I spike a sword fish baby however it was very strong we could not take it out of the water we had to catch the boat and love it until we slept it we were almost an hour Sailing until we stopped drag  we arrived almost to the beach of canoe where finally we could raise the fish to the boat the fish had a weight of 35 pounds with this I mean that Manabi Is full of wildlife recommends to be part of tourism there is much to know.

By Martin Benalcazar