Things Foreigners Should NEVER Do In Ecuador (Tips From Locals)
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2023
- Don't walk alone, always wear a hat, where the REAL "Middle of the World" actually is and a dozen more tips about how to travel and live in Ecuador from LOCALS I interviewed!
I've only lived in Ecuador for a month now and there's so many things I wish I knew before I came and there probably is much more to know SO I spent my entire week interviewing locals that I meet in my daily life to learn more. Tune in!
#ecuador #quito #cumbayá
Esos consejos son para cualquier pais del mundo
Advice from any major city in the USA. Never walk alone at night.
It's AMAZING how many say don't walk alone. I'm guessing this was filmed in Quito. I walk alone most of the time in Cuenca and have been for three years with no problems. I do not however walk around by myself later than 9:00 at night.
I walked around by myself all the time and it was safe. I felt safer there than I do here in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada.
Same here. I walked by myself in Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca, and Cañar day and night.
Until you’re robbed, at 11:30 am, at a public park, full of people, in one of the best neighborhoods, by two punks on a motorcycle who saw your wife looking at her phone. The lion always goes for the most vulnerable gazelle.
I don’t know where he was interviewing people, maybe Guayaquil or old town Quito. Anywhere else is far, far safer than the average town in the US.
Great video and excellent advice from the people showing how much they care about visitors. Beautiful country and people.
Thanks so much! All visitors welcome was one of the messages I got from it too :)
I can walk alone in Ecuador but I cant walk at night alone in downtown here in Canada
It’s area dependent for sure but Ecuador recently has seen more crime (theft, mugging)
I am from Saskatoon and I agree!
Funny how many people talked about not walking alone, especially at night or in less-safe areas. We keep hearing this here too, from many people we meet here.
And yes, the weather is so unpredictable! We've seen storm forecasts and it's been sunny all day and vice versa.
Yeah! You also just need to know which parts of town are safe and which to avoid
Gosh, should I be concerned ? I'm coming along. Femaile. older.healthy. Walk a lot.
@@BPe-ie9je I think it’s more about being aware than concerned. I like to join Facebook groups for the area I’m going to get a feel for what those living there are saying about what’s safe and what’s not. Then I can make better choices about how I move around the city.
I hope you have a great trip!! Ecuador is a beautiful country!
I can’t believe how nice all these Ecuadorians are…….
All I could think was "Here in Ecuador, we don't like when people film us and ask questions"
Great video and great info! Ecuador seems... amazing. different. idk
Hahah maybe had a few of those...glad you enjoyed it though!
We love the culture learning and exciting to visit. Haven’t seen upload video for more than weeks. What’s next video?
Great segment ..loved the feedback from Ecuadorians , they all shared good advice for extranjeros .
Glad you liked it! I agree - was helpful for me too :)
@@Eddie_He What part of the country do you live in?
@@SenorJuan2023 Quito!
wrong!! most interviewees were not ecudadorians. i think the only ecuadorian was the bar man.
0:07 она из Эквадора?!! Очень красивая женщина!❤
Informative.
Yes. All those comments it's true . 🇪🇨
Great advice. Here’s an idea: A video about how NOT to get ripped off or scammed by locals. That would also be great. Gracias.
It's wonderfull
Yes , u to come here
Damn I thought Ecuador is a safe place
Buenísimo el vídeo Eddie, solo faltó "Dejar de disfrutar".
Gracias Cesar! Jajaj estas correcto sobre eso
I've been here a year and haven't found them to be all that friendly. Most of the time, they are down right rude. If you're a visitor and visiting toursist places perhaps they are friendly. But if you live here, most of them are not. Don't get me wrong, there are some really nice people. You have to get out and create relationships. But what I mean by being unfriendly is unlike the videos you see, they don't greet you. They will walk through you if they can on the sidewalk. They wills steal your taxi, that you just hailed. They will cut in front of you in line. And, you don't have to be robbed at gun point to be robbed, they will rob you by charging you more for food, for example, and then give you food that's spoiled, or old meat. Personally, I have better luck with the Venezuelans then I do with the Ecuadorians. And, if you're thinking about moving here and shipping things, be extremely careful. The people who call themselves "shippers" are not really shippers. They will steal you blind and extort more money from you, holding your shipment hostage. If they don't then customs will. The visa attorneys are not much better. With the shippers make sure they have some kind of bonding or insurance, demand to see it. In most cases they don't. They walk a grey area, because your contract with them is in English, which wouldn't hold up in the U.S. but because the contract is in English and not Spanish and not bonded, then it's also not a contract in Ecuador. You learn these things by experience, not by being a tourist.
Have a friend who was framed and put in jail for 5 yrs in Ecuador…appears to be no functioning judiciary, legal system…
ESO DE COGER ES DE LOS ARGENTINOS, EN ECUADOR PUEDES UTILIZAR TODAS LAS PALABRAS QUE EL SEÑOR ENTREVISTADO DIJO QUE NÓ
I lived in Ecuador for 28 months. It is dangerous in Quito and other big cities. I lived in Cotacachi because it is the safest city in the country. However, it is a very small town and very boring. Most importantly, be careful of the “silent killer,” the altitude. I lost five friends who died of heart attacks because of the high altitude. Even myself, I must take heart medicine everyday! That was six years ago. 🦋
That's great advice and context on altitude - always knew it was an issue but never experienced it that seriously. Is different for everyone so all should be prepared for sure
@@Eddie_He Yes sir. I lost some great friends as we all knew each other very well since the expats do stick together. We have Thanksgiving and watch the Super Bowl together. Very sad, but true. If you are over 60 and overweight and/or once had a desk job, don’t retire in Ecuador. Take care. 🙏🏼
How is your Spanish? B1, B2? Did you learn there? How long have you been there?
I would say that I can understand and speak 80% of everything and can have a nice 1-1 conversation but in group settings without context I struggle
Nunca te acerques a la mujer de otro. Correcto!
I see a lot of locals walking with their mobile phones on their hands and talking ....
In the right areas during the day shouldn’t be too much of a problem or worry
First guy said "dog meat"
2:25 did he talk about Fight Club? Never talk about Fight Club.
Everybody in the video seem to be drunk. Here would be an accurate answer if you'd ask me:
1. Talk about politics. Societies nowadays everywhere in the world are so divided due to the algorythms. What people see in social media is what they want to see, so people have got no objectivity so they think their reality is the only valid point of view disqualifying other social group's worldview. So, unless you have lived in Ecuador for a while, unless you know a LOT of both ecuadorian and latinamerican history, and you've got a pinch of objectivity, you can talk about politics with certain individuals.
2. Complaining about ecuadorian traditions from your own worldview. Ecuador has throughout certain epoques tried to disconnect from colonialism and tried to create our own national identity, and it is highly offensive for some, that white foreigners come and complain about our ways of doing stuff. Like amazon tribes who wear almost no clothes and have been disconnected from the world, or the traditional Cotopaxi fest 'Mama Negra', which is a man that does the 'blackface' and NOT intended to offend anyone. Also, our food, like tripes or worms eaten in the Amazon. We're proud and love our local food.
3. Complaining about the lack of services or stuff sold here compared to what they find in highly developped economies. If it makes them feel superior to tell us that, well, good for them. We know. But we will feel awkward and sort of offended. Import your stuff, there's a lot of cheap ways of doing it. If you do not like our infrastructure, please, do not complain.
That's it, if you ask me. Besides that, do everything else. A foreigner no matter where they're from, they're very welcome here. What I have listed is stuff annoying even from ecuadorians. People in the video are so alarmist talking about crime. Crime is not only against foreigners, but to us ecuadorians too. So, that wouldn't respond the question certainly.
5:07 This girl is so xenophobic trying to blame venezuelans for the crime. She should know there's ecuadorian migrants being blamed for stuff outside of Ecuador too.
5:42 This girl's answer was the best, loved her!
I don't understand why some of us get offended when we talk about services, it is a reality. Opening our eyes tl different thing will make us realoze what we have to change to become an even better society. And blaming Venezuelans for the high rate crime but we cannot deny some of them are involved in thay sadly. I have been robbed by people who are clearly from overseas and I live jn a very quiet safe place where this never happened, so we can clearly see why people have that judgement aginst foreigners.
So I'm curious how patient Ecuadorians will be with me while I'm trying to learn Spanish. I can understand more than I can speak because I have a fairly difficult speech impediment, like rolling my R's is incredibly hard for me. I don't want people to think that I want them to speak English, just I'm struggling a bit due to something I can't control.
Yeah it's actually a problem I run into because lots of people in Cumbaya speak English so the second I start struggling with saying something they'll revert to English in an effort to make the conversation easier and then I'll naturally speak English too so hard to practice sometimes. It does making building relationships easier since there is no communication barrier. But also depends on the area but you may have to be intentional about your practice and it is a matter of when rather than if because so many people speak spanish youll be exposed no matter what.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of normalizing property crime, the Government should feed it’s people?
That woman is exaggerating .. come on !!!
Didn't watch it, I lived there, Nice to visit, Don't live there!
One of highest murder rates in the world.