21 and Up South of the Border
We also considered leaving the country for a more educational experience and consulted Jacquie Whitt, who co founded Adios Adventure Travel. Whitt said, “Traveling with young people keeps you young and helps prepare them for the global community we live in.” Whitt guided us to the Ecuadorian Amazon, which has become “the new Costa Rica, without the Americans!”
A short 5-hour flight from Atlanta to Quito and a 1.5-hour drive gets you to Tambopaxi Lodge located at the foot of Cotopaxi National Park. There’s plenty of hiking, kayaking, swimming and snorkeling to suit any outdoorsy type.
If your adult child isn’t into roughing it, even luxury roughing, Whitt suggested the capital of Ecuador, Quito, where she says, “you can explore the one of a kind solar museum by day and check out the sultry dance clubs by night.”
