Houses and instant residence in ecuador manabi province part 2

ALL HOUSES ARE NOW SOLD!
If you are interested in buying property in and around Manabi you can read my buyers guide post, that shows you how you can purchase a beach house for as little as 40k, which i turn shall give you residence to Ecuador  Following on from the 103 m2 house this is the 2 bedroom 1 floor house priced at 37kin dollars about 22k in brittish pounds.
This house is allot smaller to the previous house it is ideal for single or couples just starting out, but families are also included in this property, like i said the houses shown will provide you with instant residence as you are meeting the minimum requirement! these are model houses driveways etc are all to be completed, but you get the idea!

 Dining room living and kitchen

Kitchen with granite work tops door leading to patio

 View from kitchen to front door

 Bedroom 1

 Bedroom 2

 Washing area place for washing machine and patio

for more info contact Jessica at jessi23g@hotmail.com

Ecuador Houses and instant residence for manabi province

Ecuador Houses and instant residence for manabi province
As mentioned previously i recommend buying a house in a gated community unless you are prepared to buy land and get a house built to your requirements  if you are considering moving to Ecuador and are after residence these houses can give you instant residence for a single person or family etc ie 25 grand is the minum requirement from the Ecuadorian government,investing into the country plenty of opportunity here to do this!
For example I have came across this project in Portoviejo in Manabi called San Gregorio located a few minutes away from the San Gregorio university direct commuting route  to manta and of course Portoviejo itself. It is an up and coming project, will be sporting a swimming pool for residents park for children and also sports facilities ,This project seems to be quite a  popular company originally based in Guayaquil and have completed many projects over the years, first one in manabi i think!
The staff are great some speak English which helps and if you want the houses to be custom made extensions extra rooms etc this can be all worked out there by directly speaking with the architect  ,for more information in spanish or english contact JessicaGarcia  at jessi23g@hotmail.com   and she will answer any questions that you may have.

This is the entrance to the houses where the guard will be there 24 hours a day allowing and denying access!

There are 4 models being built here, but i have information on the biggest house 2 floors at 103m2 priced at 59,900 dollars about 36k in brittish pounds and the smaller 1 floor house at 42 m2 priced at 37,000 dollars
The house to the right is the 3 bedroomed 103 m2 house comprising of  2 bathrooms with wc 1 being ensuite and also wc on the ground floor,
dining living room on the ground floor with kitchen around the corner, out the back and area for washing/ patio pictures below!





Entrance to the house with porch
driveway to be built

 Walking into the house groundfloor downstairs wc

Front living room

Kitchen with granite worktops door leading to patio

 Patio hand washing in corner  area for washing machine and patio

 Upstairs window looking out to the front

 Upstairs bathroom will comprise of shower, sink and wc

Bedroom 1

 Bedroom 2

 Ensuite comprising of shower, sink wc

Main shower room
















  Next we will see the 1 floor 2 bedroom house any questions see above contact!

Ecuador Cuisine Guinea Pig also known as cuy!

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Guinea pigs!! Yes, Guinea pigs! The ones that you have as family pets aren’t treated as the cuddly companions you have at home; instead, in the Andean mountains of Ecuador,they’re bred, boiled, and deep-fried for dinner.

Guinea pig, known as Cuy in South America, is a local delicacy that’s unique to the highlands of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.  Cuy is most often eaten for special occasions, a tradition that dates back hundreds of years to the Incan empire.
Cuy is not only used for food. They warm the house, keep the rats away, and are used for medicinal purposes. Local herbal doctors use cuy in their healing rituals. In one ceremony, a shaman will rub the sick person in question with a black cuy for about 15 to 30 minutes, or until the guinea pig suffocates. He then can diagnose the patient’s illness by cutting the animal in half and interpreting the malady according to the animal's spread out innards.

It is also believed that cuy carries positive energy when eaten. 

I think I'll give it a try the next time I'm up there, promise, and will report back on the taste, but I heard it tastes like chicken. 

Cuy is prepared differently across the highlands. In places like Chaltura, they deep-fry it multiple times at different temperatures.

 the chef  throws a de-furred, cuy carcass into a pan of sizzling hot oil.  The lifeless meat is slinked into a deceptively hot vat of placid oil.  Something i have never seen yet, but Once sufficiently crispy, the cuy is served starfished  on a plate.   Head, teeth  claws the lot! ha my friends in England will be shocked also a friend of mine keeps loads as pets but shhh they might not read this, anyhow what are your views about this strange i know, but suppose if there is nowt in the house and you have a fat guinea pig looking at ya then what the hell ha ha thanks for reading one last picture still can´t believe it ha!!!

If this is not for you, then you may like these delicious meals that you will find on the coast Ceviche and Encebollado (hangover food)

Fancy trying something new and different? Want to learn more about another culture? This collection of tasty recipes from Ecuador is guaranteed to wet your appetite and widen your experience. And if you have ever wondered how the Andean people cook guinea pig.... you can find out here.

Guinea Pig For Breakfast Recipe Book 

Ecuador Cuisine Encebollado fish soup hangover cure

Encebollado is a great remedy for hangovers. Its works because the fish oil helps get rid of the free radicals that result from the breakdown of alcohol in the body. Restaurant owners in Ecuador often sell the soup in the morning for this reason, so if you get up early you will see a few sore heads ha ha although it is versatile enough to work for lunch and dinner, too.

Encebollado has to be my favourite dish out here i could live off the stuff, it  is the national dish of Ecuador, where it originated. not to hard to make, encebollado has only four primary ingredients: fish, tomatoes, onions and yuca. The soup is both pungent and spicy in flavor.

The base of encebollado is a mix of tomatoes and onions, and the Spanish word encebollado is roughly translated as "onion fish soup." This mix, known as sofrito, also calls for spices common to the Ecuadorian region, such as cumin, chili and cilantro. Salt also is included. In some versions, the cook also adds some fresh chili peppers.

Albacora, or tuna, is the traditional encebollado fish. One reason for this is that tuna is so plentiful in the waters near Ecuador. With tuna, a common fish, as the primary protein, encebollado is a relatively inexpensive soup.

In addition to the sofrito and tuna, encebollado recipes include yuca. Yuca is a root vegetable found in much of South America. A highly coarse and fibrous plant, yuca provides the starch for the soup and is a major source of carbohydrates.

To make this simple fish soup, one first prepares the base. This requires frying the tomatoes, onions and spices in some oil. Only medium heat is required during this step.


After you have done the base,  add water to it and boil the tuna for about 15 minutes until it is cooked all the way through. then add the cilantro to the resultant fish broth during this process. Then the tuna is taken out and drained, and the yuca is boiled in the fish broth until the roots are tender but firm. After the yuca roots are cooked, they are removed from the broth so that their coarse strings can be removed and the roots chopped. Adding the yuca and tuna back to the broth with some salt completes the main part of the fish soup.

You can also  add pickled onions and tomato to the batch. Salsa sometimes is used in addition to or in place of these toppings. Another option is topping the soup with some additional chili pepper slices. you can sprinkle the dish with a little lime juice, and finally add chifles to the mix tastes lush! give it a go tell me what you think thanks for looking!

Ecuador Cuisine Fish Ceviche

Follow on from shrimp ceviche here is the recipe for fish ceviche remember these are merely guidelines as everyone cooks it different but you get the idea, i have rice and chifles with mine chifles are like crisps that you crush and mix in your finished dish should look a bit like this

On to how to make fish ceviche
Ingredients:

2lb of white fish fillets (corvina, halibut, sea bass, tilapia, sole), cut into small square pieces
2 red onions diced very finely
4 tomatoes diced very finely
2 bell peppers, assorted colors, chopped very finely
20 limes, separated into about 10 limes to cook the fish and 10 limes for the ceviche marinade
1 bunch of cilantro (also known as coriander) chopped as finely as possible
Salt and sunflower oil

Preparation:

    Place the raw fish pieces in a glass dish and cover it with salt and lime juice from about 10-12 limes, the fish should be completely covered by lime juice.
    Cover the dish with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator, let the fish marinate or cook itself in the lime juice for at least 4 hours.
    Mix the onions, tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro with the juice from the remaining limes and let marinate for about an hour.
    Once the fish is “cooked” in the lime juices rinse it well and mix it with the vegetable marinade, add salt and sunflower oil to taste.
    Serve with chifles. and don´t forget the rice for more recipes might i suggest using the
Here for shrimp Ceviche recipe

The Ecuador Cookbook: traditional vegetarian and seafood recipes 

An easy to use English / Spanish cookbook featuring traditional vegetarian and seafood Latin American cuisine; step-by-step instructions; easy to find ingredients; and original illustrations

Ecuador Cuisine Shrimp Ceviche

When you come to Ecuador there are many cuisines to try out in this post we will concentrate on ceviche made with shrimp, when i first came here i was a bit wiery on trying out all these new foods as there is allot of lime used in these foods thought maybe bad stomach especially from using fish and shrimp etc, i did try a ceviche, but really hated it, but 2 years on i love it and have it most sundays as it is a tradition over here on the coast ,it must of just been the wrong place that i had it, Any how my wifes mother knocks up some great food ceviche being one of her dishes,
Here is a basic recipe on how to make shrimp ceviche maybe not exactly the same as my mother in laws but just a guidline you will need

    2 pounds raw shrimp, deveined, and shelled

    4 limes

    1 lemon

    1/2 medium onion, chopped fine

    3 tomatoes, chopped

    1 jalapeno, chopped, don't de-seed

    heavy handful of chopped cilantro

    10 oz. ketchup

    salt to taste

Directions

Boil water  then turn it off and put your shrimp in the pot for only one minute (they should not be completely cooked!) and remove from water to a strainer.

Put shrimp and chopped onion in a medium/large bowl and squeeze the juice of limes and lemon over the top. Salt a bit, stir, and cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour. (It's important that you put onion in with shrimp in this step - if you wait and add it later it won't be the same - the onion "cooks" with the shrimp in the citrus juice.)

Remove from fridge (that's obvious, right?), stir, and add your chopped tomatoes, jalapeno, cilantro, ketchup, and a bit more salt to taste also have some rice made up to mix in and we use chiflets like crisps but made from plantain. should look something like this

Jobs a good en not sure how many people this will feed but im guessing 4 plus, next i will talk about ceviche with fish also a dish called encebollado which is by far my favourite i could just eat that allday. give it a go see what you think thanks for looking!

Ecuador life A few reasons why you should choose Ecuador for a holiday

 So you have never been to  South America before?,but  You want to experience adventure, culture, history, and nature all wrapped up into one holiday? Then  look no further  Ecuador is the place for you and a great starting point if you want to explore the world. With exceptionally diverse flora and fauna, warm temperatures year round, and many opportunities for adventure at every turning point, Ecuador is definitely your destination of choice.  Ecuador is made up over 4 diverse regions in one country consisting of the Galapagos Islands the Amazon the coast and the Andes  which we will talk about today

The Galapagos Islands  also known as the Enchanting Islands, offer visitors the opportunity to get up close to hundreds of bird species, unique flora and fauna, and numerous endemic species found only here pure paradise. In the Galapagos you can swim with the sea lions, if you feel brave you can dive with white-tip reef sharks or if that isn’t your preference then you can just get close-up to the  giant tortoises out in the wild.  The islands offer an amazing walking experience sporting beautiful beaches with breath taking  sun sets each day.for Galapagos bookings try  http://www.galapagostraveline.com

Amazon Jungle  The Amazon sitting on the east part of Ecuador gives you the experience of a real rainforest the same as what you would see in Brazil, that offers exactly the same pristine jungle.  Examine the diverse vegetation, and unique wildlife as you trek through the Ecuadorian Amazon. With over 1,000 different species of birds living here

, it is a prime location to bird watch so get your binoculars and cameras on the ready. Other wildlife you will see are  monkeys which swing overhead or if you are lucky you may spot the brightly colored poison dart frog.  Amazon lodges are available giving you that relaxed feeling also overlooking the Napo River. to book a tour try http://www.rainforestsecuador.com/

Quito Is the capital of Ecuador, which has been recognized since 1978 as an UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved, beautiful colonial center where the president Raphael Correa resides. You will walk amongst the oldest monuments of the city, which include: the 300 year old San Francisco convent and Jesuit Church.  you can also get an insight into the ecuador’s culture by a light lunch or coffee as in a quiet side street while you may spot the odd Quechua woman that flourishes past you in their vivid clothing arrangements .allot of mixed culture you will see here but very interesting! for Quito tours try http://www.grayline.com/Quito/

Cotopaxi Volcano the Cotopaxi volcano is the second highest volcano in Ecuador. Clearly distant from the Quito skyline, Cotopaxi is also one of few mountains with a glacier on top of it’s peak. Alexander von Humboldt was the first European to try  climbing to the summit, but only managed to get half way, but times have changed and you can actually trek to the summit with assistance and guided tours in order to make that dream come true! for cotopaxi tours try www.cotopaxitours.com

The City of Cuenca  which is the third largest city in Ecuador definitely worth a visit you will see many historic buildings of colonial charm and bustling markets.  El Sagrario is of particular interest, which was built in 1557 more than 455 years ago. Explore the city as you venture to different museums, churches, and galleries or even to  stop off  and buy some authentic souvenirs many arts and crafts handmade by locals. El Cajas National Park is also situated here sporting over 275 Andean lakes and many places to just sit,relax and enjoy the view!for tour guides in Cuenca try www.cuenca.com.ec

Whale Watching Every summer in the months between June and October, humpback whales travel to their breeding areas off the Pacific coast of Ecuador. You can take a small boat and  get up-close to the whales  in their natural habitat where they reside here until  they move on to warmer waters. The best place to go whale watching  is in a small coastal town called Puerto Lopez  in Manabi many tourists come here every year and are amazed with these giant creatures! for whale watching in Puerto Lopez try http://www.hosteltrail.com/tour_companies/islastours

I hope this is all helpfull to you and gives you an insight as to how what and when to do activities of interest over here!