Ecuador
Real Estate Report
Free Five Year’s of Ecuador Real Estate History
Ecuador Real Estate Archive
XI
Updated July, 23 2005
By
Gary Scott
To help you get a feel of Ecuador
real estate we have posted this special archive that lists many of the hundreds
of messages we have shared with our readers about Ecuador real estate this decade.
I Scream for Ice Cream. Ecuador Real Estate and
Export
A warm breeze billows a message
of freshness and new crops. Patchwork quilts of green plowed by a farmer with
brown and white oxen rise through the valley mists. I hang on.
Ibarra Ecuador Feb. 27 2001.
I am riding in the back of a dusty, pickup truck and getting wet! This is Carnival
and the tradition here is for the kids to throw buckets of water and water balloons
at traffic that passes by. We are weaving along cobblestone village lanes watching
for local aqua bombarding waifs who have forwarded of our arrival by the roar
of our engine. We are watching so we'll know when to duck!
Our trusty drive slows or speeds
to ward off the sodden arcs as they are thrown. Most of them miss. Yet a few get
lucky. One tiny, barefooted girl in a green ragged dress and a dirty nose, not
more than four I would guess, caught me perfectly with a full yellow, water balloon.
Our guest John, got a whole bucketful in the chest. Luckily the sun is warm, the
air flows and we dry out quickly. What a fun way to conduct a business!
Merri and I have driven with
friends to look at some farms for sale. We rode along wide clean boulevards lined
with stately Canary date palms, their trunks painted white as we entered this
80,000 populated town. Then we hustled into the city center to look at some secrets
our friend and guide Santiago Guaminy wanted to share. We were looking for business
opportunities we told him.
The first comes in the form of
a candy shop where they specialize in a blackberry syrup and sugarcane candy called
Nogada. This walnut covered candy comes in four flavors, (blackberry, vanilla,
cream and cinnamon). This delight is packaged in circular and heart shaped wooden
containers (perfect for export) and is highly unusual. I bought over a dozen for
gifts. The cost retail? A mere dollar each.
The next surprise was even better,
an ice cream shop named Rosalia Suarez. This shop, opened 105 years ago by Mama
Rosalia, makes it own ice cream and sherbets on the spot. A large, round wooden
bowl is lined with thatch and loaded with salt, sugarcane, ice and fruit. Stirred
with a huge wooden spoon the resulting sherbet is slightly below heaven, but not
much. Unless you have tasted fresh, home made ice cream on a hot day while sitting
under a shady oak tree, you cannot begin to imagine the treat. Flavors you know
are blackberry, coconut, banana, mango, cream, and chocolate. Others such as guanabana,
fruitilla, naranjilla, ovo, taxo and maracuya are pretty much endemic to Ecuador
but no less delicious. All are served up with barquillos (wafers made from banana
skin).
In the name of good journalism
I had to taste them all!
They are all exquisite, I can professionally
report.
The shop is like old fashioned
soda fountains used to be, white tile floor, charming white chairs and tables
and big servings. The cost for all six of us was a puny three bucks.
Learn more about Ibarra Ecuador Real Estate
This is a good business idea
to export to U.S. cites especially with large Latin populations.
The farms we saw would make farmers
in the north weep, direct sun 365 days a year, volcanic soil, sweet, good natured
labor at $50 to $75 a month. The cows were so healthy, the fruit and vegetables
so ripe and huge, the meadows so green. Prices were low. One 5,000 acre majestic
farm started at $1,000,000 and I expect will sell for much less. Gary
We have continual Ecuador
real estate tours.
I hope to see you in Ecuador. Until then, good
investing!
Gary
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