Boystrup Pb, ann,... wrote:

Ok,
I'm planning a trip to Ecuador in 2005. End of augaut beginning of
september.
What I would like to know are some basic tips. It's going to become a real
orchid hunt, just to see what I can find. My Aunt works at the Belgium
embassy and should be able to arange the needed paperwork.
I was thinking about one week at an altitude of 2900. Being Quito. My aunt
lives there and outside the city I saw a lot of orchids when I went in 1992.
Later a week at the coast there's a lot of forest there and a different
climat an last but not least one week in the jungle. There a belgian monk
living at a small mission just outside the jungle and he's a good friend of
my aunt.
My budget is going to be 2500Euro(=dollar) and I'm hoping to find one or
two experienced travelers to come along. Splitting the costs and helping
eachother in case of trouble. Also hoping that a niece or cousin can help
with the language.
That's the basic Idea.



You might want to contact Pepe Portillo at Ecuagenera
(http://ecuagenera.com/). He would be an excellent resource for your
trip. They also offer orchid habitat tours, and I want to go sometime.
If I recall properly, they have bought several acres at several
different elevations in some very prime locations, and much if not all
of the tours are at their own properties. Pepe's English is quite good,
and he is a nice guy.


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1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit