$20 HOTEL ROOM TOUR! AMBATO, ECUADOR + TRYING ECUADORIAN FOOD (LLAPINGACHO y HORNADO)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- Trying Ecuadorian food (COMIDA ECUATORIANA) was the reason for our travel to AMBATO, ECUADOR. But first, we needed to find a simple hotel room in Ambato before hitting the market for some seriously rich comida Ecuatoriana - LLAPINGACHO & HORNADO!
We'll show you our basic hotel room in Ambato, then we'll grab some hearty Ecuadorian market food. After that, come along as we search for a local drink in Ambato called MOROCHO , which has a strangely familiar taste to us...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro.
00:36 - Why We're in Ambato
01:30 - Our VERY Small Room
02:53 - Bathroom Basics
03:45 - Furniture Facts
05:09 - On the Way to Market
06:08 - Llapingachos
08:05 - Hornado
10:16 - Jerry's Dream Hotel
10:32 - What is Morocho?
12:18 - Room Review
17:58 - A Surprise Gift
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Nice video, guys ! Enjoy your time in Ecuador.
Hi Phil! Ecuador has been amazing - we've especially enjoyed the stunning beauty of the highlands and the food has been quite good, too!
Yay! A drink you can chew lol. Classic Drifters. Love from B and M in Siam. ❤
Thanks for tuning in Chickens. Hope yous are on the beach with a nice, cold beverage on hand ... a non-chewable beverage! 🥰❤️🥰❤️
I liked that room. Small is good. The food looked great. Thanks You Two. I really enjoyed it.🤠
Hi Roy! This hotel room was a winner and the place was run by a very friendly family. That was some seriously rich food, too - yum!
Hi Drifters! We're now in La Perula, Jalisco headed down the coast around the end of the month! Thanks for your videos. We want to visit Ecuador in the future when we can fly out from Mexico.
Hi Blue Butterfly Travels. We hope yous are enjoying Jalisco. It's a state we hope to explore more of some day. Ecuador is beautiful and very easy to get around by bus. You'll love it there. We hope yous get a chance to check out the Michoacán coast as you make your way south, it is absolutely stunning around Playa Maruata and Caleta de Campos. Thanks for tuning in to our Ecuador travels. 🤗🤗
I love how you guys can travel lightly and inexpensively, have fun and meet so many cool people, the last year of my life has been pretty bad, I won't mention all of it but my mom lost her bf of 35 years, she met him after my dad passed, she didn't want to remarry, that was in late Jan, and then my nephew 4/25 he was only 30, he did tree work, there was an accident that took him, I am facing a spinal fusion in July, I know things will be fine, I am again trying to catch up on your videos, love how down to earth you two are. Thank you !
Hello mjc 427. We really are sorry to hear that this year has been so brutal for you, and your Mum. We hope your surgery goes well in July and we wish you a speedy and comfortable recovery. We also hope you have no more bad news to bear this year, you've certainly had your toll. Please mind yourself and allow yourself time to heal both from the surgery and from all that life has thrown at you in the last few months. We also hope your Mum is alright and minding herself through these tough times.
We appreciate you taking the time to watch our videos and for your very kind comments on them too. 🤗🤗 We are currently struggling with our "light travelling" as we are just winding up our spring house sit in New Mexico and are in the midst of packing for another season of salmon processing in Alaska! The processing plant is very cold and very wet, so we're jamming as many heavy winter clothes as we can into our carry-on bags (36L and 40L backpacks). It's quite the intriguing challenge! 😉 I predict us showing up to the airport wearing multiple layers of clothing (that which won't fit in the carry-on bags).
Thanks again mjc 427 for all of your support and kindness. Please mind yourself (and your Mum). 🥰🤗🥰🤗
Thanks for sharing Ambato! I'm not going to lie - this hotel does not look like much from the street and the room, well ...
One suggestion for future room reviews: it would be interesting to know something about the other patrons of the hotels. Are they travelers? International or domestic tourists? Or is the hotel what we call an SRO - where most rooms are occupied by locals who live there full time.
I also like it when you show the common areas of the hotels. Over the years, you have featured hotels with nice courtyards or spaces to hang out and/or work. I could handle a tiny room - but only if there was a balcony, roof deck or courtyard to sit in and have my morning tea.
Speaking of tea - I am always asking hotel staff (or restaurant staff if applicable) for cups of hot water and a side of milk. Can't leave the building without at least two cups of tea! Sheesh, maybe I am too fussy.
Thank you for the suggestions, Dan - we'll certainly keep these in mind for future hotel videos. Right now we are back in the U.S. for a bit and we'll be working with hotel room footage from the last 3.5 months, but we'll give more details about our accommodations next time we're on the road.
Having said that, our soon-to-be-released hotel video from Loja, Ecuador will feature some common areas, the likes of which one doesn't come across too much in their travels... Stay tuned for that one because we think you'll love what you see in this area, if not the actual room itself. This spot also featured unlimited cups of hot water, 24-hours a day - this was quite the luxury for us and we certainly availed of it!
We can shed some light on other guests at the establishments we stay in. It's frequently a mix of many of the types of guests you've mentioned, except for international travelers/tourists - we rarely see them at all. Long-term "tenants" are also quite rare. A lot of street vendors seem to stay where we do - you can tell them by their large, plastic-wrapped bundles of random merchandise. Depending on where we are and what season it is, we notice a lot of families on vacation stay at the same spots we do - new hats, sunglasses and shorts seem to give them away much of the time. It was summer in Peru and Ecuador while we were there from early December through late March and kids were out of school. A lot of work crews can be found at some of the more basic establishments we stay at.
In Peru we noticed many of the hotels we stayed at accepted hourly guests (with passwords to enter on the tv for the adult channels) but, oddly enough, these were also places where we noticed vacationing families staying as well. Our already-released video of the hotel in Trujillo, Peru was one of these places. This wasn't a "hostal" - Peru features thousands of these and everyone from there knows that hostals (hostels are different) are the hourly spots. It doesn't take long for observant first-time visitors to figure out hostals as the signs hanging off these establishments indicate tantric love chairs, jacuzzi tubs, hearts, hourly rates and much more.
Were you in Ecuador during the last earthquake, close to Cuenca, it also affected Pérou. For a one night stay, that hotel room is suitable. The llapingacho looks delicious, fried mashed potatoes miam miam miam. Thank you for posting that vidéo. I am leaving Mazatlan April 18th. I enjoyed my stay.
Hi Marthe. We were in Riobamba (north of Cuenca) last Saturday March 18th, when the earthquake struck. We had just gotten back to our hotel room when it happened. It is extremely bizarre/surreal to feel the building you're in swaying and to watch the wires and lamp-posts outside billow and sway right before your very eyes. It lasts only seconds but feels like so much longer! This was the 4th country we've experienced an earthquake in! There was no damage in Riobamba but unfortunately other areas weren't so lucky.
This little hotel in Ambato is great and the family who run it are very sweet.
Oh the llapingachos are something I will dream of for quite a while 😋.
Thanks for enjoying our video Marthe 🤗🤗. Continue to enjoy your next few weeks in Mazatlán.
My son noticed that free roasted pork samples for Jerry is like chum for fish... Haha...just sayin'
About the samples, Chris is very observant and he's absolutely correct! I've had a few free samples of pork thrown my way in Ecuador and I get roped-in every time - they see me coming a mile away and they pounce!😂
LLAPINGACHO sounds like hangover food...
Llapingacho would definitely be the perfect hangover "cure". It's also the most perfect comfort food - fried mashed potatoes and cheese! What could be better?
Omg I love ❤ Ecuadorian food LLapingachos ❤taste so delicious the combination of everything it’s just amazing 😅👌 but the key it’s the homemade hot sauce … that it’s not spicy 🌶️ but makes everything better 👌also for chicharron hominy hornado with tons of that onion salad 🥗 next time you go to Ecuador try avena polaca it’s difficult to find …✌️
We were surprised by how delicious and varied the food in Ecuador was. To be truthful, we didn't know what to expect, but it was all so tasty to us. Please check out our Latacunga video featuring the yummy chugchucara dish. Until then, we'll be on the look-out for avena polaca during our next visit to Ecuador - is this traditionally enjoyed at breakfast?
@@ACoupleofDrifters no 😅 ofcourse you can drink it for breakfast if you want but no…. Lol people usually drink avena polaca any time like a snack a dessert like when you are craving something sweet and very cold , it is like when you want rice pudding I don’t know 🤷♀️ how to explain lol sorry my English is bad lol 😂 anyways the important thing is that avena polaca taste amazing literally 🤭👌👌👌👌
hahahaha...love you 2
We love you too Darlene and we are very happy and grateful that you tune in to us. Thank you Darlene for always keeping our spirits up. 🥰❤️🥰❤️
Sorry you pick a bad deal about the hotel. Always ask todo see the rooms first. I have seen some of tour vídeos.you are a lovely couple. Hope you might ❤comeback to Ecuador
Thank you! We actually liked our hotel in Ambato, even if we had few very minor complaints. The family running the hotel were very kind - the dueña even gave us a small gift when we left. We hope to return to Ecuador in the future.
@@ACoupleofDrifters good yo hear that the were Kind. We New turismo in Ecuador. God blesa you guys
Thank you Antonio! We'll have more videos from Ecuador from Catacocha, Macará, Riobamba, Loja, Latacunga and Cuenca
as long as fionia has a hot shower
I do love a hot shower. Mind you I'll put up with cold showers too when we're in hot climates, where even a tepid shower is hard to come by 😉. Growing up in Ireland meant having a shower/bath was ruled by having to turn on an immersion. It also meant suffering the wrath of angry parents when said immersion was accidentally left on (sky-high electricity bill). In Ireland showers and immersions are inextricably linked, and we are psychologically scarred as a nation due to this. 😂🤣