Canoa

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Canoa is a small laid-back town at the Pacific coast in Ecuador. It's an excellent place to chill-out for a few days on the beach or practice your surfing skills.

Contents 1 Get in 2 See 3 Do 4 Buy 5 Eat 6 Drink 7 Sleep 8 Get out 9 External links

Get in

Every 30 minutes there is a bus connection with San Vincente/Bahia, from there 4 busses daily leave to Quito (2 in the morning and to in the evening).

See

Do

Canoa has some nice surf to learn surfing or perfect your skills. Surfshop Bahaya (one block from the beach) rent out shortboards or longboards (no intermediates) for about $5 per halfday.

Buy

Eat

• Restaurante Genesis, Javier Santos #306 (main road), has cheap and decent fish dishes.

Drink

• The happy hour (5:00pm till 6:30pm) in Hotel Bambú (see Sleep) is a good place to meet other travellers.

Sleep

• Hotel Bambú is right on the beach. It rent out bamboo sheds, cabins or hotel rooms or you can pitch your own tent. Besides accommodation there is a restaurant (good food, but a bit pricy) and bar. Furthermore there is a pool table, table tennis, laundry service and surfboard rental. Prices vary from $4.00 for the bamboo shed till $20.00 for a double hotel room with private bath.

Get out

External links

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