cozybunch:
@19naia, u sound like one from the east cost; round trip less than $800 lol. May be east, put into consideration other parts of states and also the period for his trip as it is high now (summer).

Those from south, west, alaska or even hawaii pay way more, even when plained.

Good Luck

Thats true. I got a flight from NewYork JFK for $850 round trip to lagos. And i saw as low as $790 from Houston texas to Lagos round trip. I took JFK instead because it stops over in Europe rather than one non stop long 12-14 hour flight from Houston.

I used to live in Hawaii and it cost me around $850 minimum to go from east coast to Hawaii round trip. Usually more like $1100.

So yes hawaii flights can be double the cost. But any way, its a good example to show why OP should not pay up to $800 for a roundtrip to Europe. Its not a long flight route..
I always find that booking the ticket 3 months in advance, avoids the extra cost of pricey seasons.

Below is a link to the swiss embassy site and it seems there are no swiss consulates showing for Nigeria.

The fees look very cheap at $63 per adult. Not bad at all.
But be cautious to follow the application as they may have other fees involved along the way of application depending on which country you are applying from.

The web site below has the visa applications and the list of fees and it looks at first glance like it is very cheap. A good sign right from the start. Just be prepared that medical clearance costs may pop up in application requirements as well as other costs to meet requirments.


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Look up online airfare prices from Europe to Nigeria. I give you a clue here, Prices from USA to Nigeria round trip can be as low as under $800. No need to ever pay more than $1200 from USA to Nigeria roundtrip unless you are impatient during the pricey season or commited to an expensive airline or first class.

Visa cost involve more than just the visa fees to the consulate visa department. You will have requirements and things to submit along with your application. The costs include document printing, photo printing, paying for documents from your loacal government institutions to support your case and so on.
E.G.~ USA visa application is around $161 fee for the application and then add the cost of added documents and photos. Then travel to interview.
Visa for USA citizen to come to Nigeria is around $220 just to get the application submitted and processed.Then the added cost of express mail and document printing and copying will bring it up to around $300.

The other indirect cost is the Medical, Yellow card and vaccines for foriegners into Nigeria as well as the same for Nigerians going to Europe and America. Nigerians can also be likely to have to go through other medical test such as for TB and other medical clearances. At least some visa types will require that if not all.
I have seen the USA visa medical clearance requirments cost $240 in poor Countries.

Ticket to Europe from Nigeria, be confident that you can get a ticket for $800 or less because thats the cost to USA over a longer flight route. Europe should be easily cheaper than $800 ticket price if you search well.
Visa fees depend on the type of visa and or permits. If its a basic visa to visit, then just estimate high and have $800 for visa process and $800 for ticket. That should cover it and you may be surprised to see a few hundred $ left over to use on arrival.

~Just go to the consulate of interest website and go to Visa appliction details and table of fees.~
Do this to be sure. Maybe Swiss is Extraordinary in its fees and requirements.


I know other types of visas can easily cost $1000 in all the requirments ,and if it involves getting a resident permit such as in USA, that is another $1000 just to pay the resident permit alone.

What type of visa are you getting, and then start asking the cost. Various types of visas and they dont always cost the same.

Some where in the back of the court room, a strange woman quietly waits for this lady to hurry up and dump him so that she can move in on him for the real service he offers to womanity, or at least those among womanity that know a good thing when they have it breathng heavy down their necks all day every day.

Complex unless you have the formula.It involves the compounding effect where each years intrest is added to the following years amount and that then increases the amount of interest paid the year after. This process contiunes every year in a compounding fashion to give a different but increasing total for each year.
year twenty is likely "n" in the formula equation and that will also bring to term (n-1) as year 19.

I see the complexity and cant recall the formula and dont care to take the time to calculate it year by year in 20 different steps.

I beg, according to tradition, The King is supposed to rule the people as supreme leader. When was the last time a king had power over state and federal revenues, the military, and any other business of substantial leadership over the people?
The king is just a historic relic kept as a matter of heritage and no more to really do what he was historically entitled to do.

So, if king no longer serves his historic purpose of ultimate rule over the people, then how can that be a good example set for Abobaku to serve his historical purpose?
I beg, run abobaku, run well well. The king sef never served his purpose except to just chop the benefits of the title, and he cannot demand of you what he did not set example for in his life. Kingly rule tradition is abolished and so are the kingly powers over other people's lives.
Long live the king and long live abobaku.

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Check out the above link about Chinas struggle to bring its Currency Value down. Opposite of what Nigerians thinks will help them.

Chinas reason for a lower valued currency is to help their Export market which is the base of their economic strength. The low currency value maneuvers have helped to boost their export market earnings and enrich their economy so much that it has been driving their currency value up.
The currency value being driven up, then goes on to reduce their export earnings and weakens the economy. So they work to reduce the currency value again and again rather than try to raise their currency.

Nigeria is behaving like a country that intends to stay in an import intensive economy, because a high Naira value will never help Nigeria sell exports to the world and that will hurt the economy.
Nigeria is boosting production and squeezing flow of imports, which can help encourage productivity and local made purchases grow in Nigeria, but as long as people are spendng Naira to do so, it really doesnt matter how the Naira rates against currencies from outside Nigeria.
The Naira Value only matters for those who have full intention of being import reliant such as with petrol imports, automotive assembly components, Rich politicians running overseas for medical and luxury items, and the list goes on.
Nigeria wants to raise the Naira to ease the cost of import, but that doesnt help the economy nor the Naira in the long run. A lower rated Naira can help Nigeria in the same way a lower rated Yuan helps China, but Nigeria is still yet to raise productivity to a level that benefits from a low Naira value.

So instead, Nigeria is trying to serve itself a meal without so much the effort to place down a plate for it to be contained?
That sounds about right, same country so popular for serving itself huge prices and politician salaries before layng down the foundation for deserving that. Serving itself the status of economic power of Africa before laying down the infrastructure and Quality/Standard of living in and for the Nation.
Just Chop Chop and manipulate for a benefit without the foundation to feasibly carry it. And so it is things crash again and again while the real issues go ignored or sheltered for the benefit of those very few at the very top.

Just take time to think about China an economic Giant of the world, making manipulations to drive its currency value down, while Nigeria is making manipulations to drive its currency up..
Then think about all the productivity and extent of investment in functional infrastructure in China versus the same in Nigeria..
Then it begs to ask, what is with Nigeria and the want for bigger status, higher valued currency and so on, without the quality and standard of living and production to match?
The answer is simple in the same answer to why Nigerian politicians earn more than other politicians around the world while doing very little service to the country and running outside the country to take care of their most important needs. Its all about want for more and more and more without the real work and understanding put in for it.
The Naira can be as high and as low as can be and it wont make a differnece about anything for people within Nigeria if they have their productivity, standard of living ,coruption control ,and social services functioning well for them.
Without these, no amount of value to the Naira will help the economy, and all artificial manipulations to change the value, will see long term failure.

I beg, leave that thing alone and eat MoinMoin, Nigerian proper bean curd. The way tofu was meant to be. Soy bean is over rated anyway.

MoinMoin forever, with real flavor and is better original bean curd concoction.. My bele gree wit it well well.

Is this really true
Whenever a squeeze is put on people's ability to access their money, it reduces the amount of money they circulate in the Market.

The market will feel it as people will spend less as cash becomes less available.
Making cash scarce seems to be the plan here to drive up Naira value.
The more cash circulates, the better it is for the economy.

Making cash scarce will drive down the economy by reducing the number of transactions and the number of expensive transactions.
Less sales and reduction of expensive sales will only reduce the strength of the economy which is based on trade.
It is bad for the economy, and what is bad for the economy is bad for the Naira.
This move may look good in the short term but must be adjusted before the long term effect on the economy sets in.

People make a living by what they sell. What they sell must be bought by people with enough money to spend. Hiw will they make a living if less money is allowed to circulate? It was bad enough getting timely payments of salaries in Nigeria before these restrictions on cash flow in Nigeria. How will restricting cash flow help the situation any more? There is a chance a lot more people will go unpaid as less money circulates.

Nigerians will start to improvise and maybe even grow the black market sector of the economy which can easily bypass Nigerias banking restrictions by reaching across the Nigerian borders.

Still playing banking manipulations without yet tackling the real issues behind the Naira struggle.
I hope these banking restrictions will at least be a pain for all those corrupt chop chop embezzlers who will not be able to easily access or easily move their loot around. Combine that with the measures taken to consolidate state and federal funds accounts, and we will see some restraint on the amount of money embezzled. That sure will be something good for the economy and the Naira.

Go to Latin America even if only for the face to face experience of the big question : How is it that a nation as supposedly poor as Ecuador compares as such to a country supposedly rich as Nigeria?

Either Ecuador is Wealthier in deed or Nigeria has nothing to show for its superior wealth because of the worlds most shameful rate of chopping national revenues as well as narrow focus on charging market prices without putting in equitable market quality and standard of product and service.

I posted above at least 6 cities in Ecuador including the top two biggest cities that easily give lagos something to think about.
I havent even covered the full scattering of cities they have to show , but you can search on Youtube for them.

When they say Ecuador is poor, its because they are compared to USA on the same american continent.

When they say Nigeria is rich, it is because nigeria is compared to Africa.

Same thing when Nigerians were gloating about having economy rated next to or above south africa, it looked so shameful to see nigerias state of being as far as infrastructure and quality of life, compared to countries supposedly poorer than nigeria.
Maybe the truth is that Nigeria is the number one at chopping its money and letting the country be damned.

Lets not forget Nigerias huge population compared to Ecuadors much smaller population. So much man power in Nigeria ,yet Ecuador has much more to show in terms of effort and money invested into its Qualities.

I would be ashamed to be a Nigerian made billionaire with all the money to show and no real national integrity to bear. It would make me look like a crazy inhumane beast who just reaps off the country while leaving the country to flounder.

Guayaquil and Quito
Now we are talking and see lagos keeping quiet because.....Ehennn. Ecuador was developing long before Nigeria was entered into the great European heist that colonized both Ecuador and Nigeria. Of course Latin america was mostly colonized by spanish peoples rather than British.

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Lets put it this way: Ecuador is flooded with american and european tourist and others from all over the world.

What could be in Ecuador that would draw americans and Europeans to spend money to go there as well as take their retirment pensions to live there? Let this question tell you how Ecuador compares to Nigeria.

Making a living there is no guarantee and wages are low but prices are low as well.. Nigeria is overpriced.

Speak spanish and your life will be better there, but understand that Black people all over Latin america are very rarely accepted or accomodated in job sectors where any real money is made.

Most of latin america is easily limited to around $500 monthly salary for proffesional jobs and any one making $2000 a month or more, is considered Upper class.
There are US and EU citizens that work in Latin America and recieve salaries closer to $2000 and above monthly, but they usually work for international companies and get such salaries because $500 is not even up to a poverty wage in their home countries. They are paid higher as an incentive to bring their skills and connections to a place that offers less than they have at home.

Trust me when i say some US citizens make the decision to live in Ecuador with just $500 income. $1200 is the comfortable medium for US citizens who decide to live there. $2000 a month is a grand experience but will not cover the fact that ecuador has some ultra luxury places for people who have millions.

Salinas, Manta are beach resort cities and do give them a look on you tube just to see how those small cities make lagos look like its only trying. And thats without comparing the 2 major cities of Ecuador Quito amd Guayaquil.

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1. By having a life lived that provides all the evidence needed in place of random opinons of others.

2. Knowing every one makes mistakes and that one person who is not perfect, has no right to deprive you of making your own fair share of mistakes. Mistakes are a learning opportunity.

3. Knowing that if you ever have an opinion about something not directly involvng you, then you must understand why random people around you have opinions about you and your business in life. Vicarious experience is a human need, to live or have an experience through someone else's life and experience. Just a detailed way of saying back seat driver who has no hand in the controls but thinks to know all about the operations of the vehicle.
Its no big deal, just fill your mind with as much wisdom as possible to form a mesh that you filter all the random opinions through.

Thanks for letting me add my "opinion" to the matter.

Afam4eva:
I'll really like to visit all of Latin America. That may just be my favourite part of the world owing mainly to the beach culture there.

Its worth it and not so expensive unless you dont go with money and try to earn income there without any good connections. Plus no time to travel if always working there.

I have been so far to Ecuador, Peru, Panama, CostaRica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico in Latin America.
I would like to at least include Brazil to my list one day. But right now i am working on Africa.

Any one who is accustomed to African countries like Nigeria will easily handle being in latin america.

The cheapest countries there are Peru, ecuador, nicaragua, Honduras and guatemala. The most expensive are down far south like Brazil, Argentina and Chile. But even so, they are not so expensive that you cant find better hotel prices than in Nigeria.

cutieme:
@19naia,nice one bro,thanks.So in your own opinion,where is better off to migrate to, Peru or Ecuador at least u have been to both places

I think it may be Ecuador, but i have to go back to Ecuador and see more of it to be sure. I have been around Peru from the main city Lima to the Amazon region and to the northern coastal regions. I have only been to Ecuador southern region close to the border with Peru.

Ecuador is a more constant climate along the equator and more lush with vegetation. Those things are important to me. Peru is mostly dry brown desert lands between the mountains and pacific ocean.

Nigeria and most of africa can boast no earthquake activity. Not so in south america. Anywhere that has huge mountains is sure to be and earthquake activity zone. It takes major earth movement to raise mountains and that comes with the comstant risk of earthquakes.
Some of the worlds largest earthquakes on record have come out of Chile and Peru.

Chile borders Peru to the south and Ecuador borders Peru to the North. The farther south you go, the colder the climate gets.

Most of peru is very cool to moderately cold climate. Ecuador is hotter except in the mountains where altitude is a very cool if not feezing climate.

The Equator runs through Ecuador and is reason behind the name Ecuador.

Its not easy to avoid the topic of drugs in Peru because they have quite a collection from the Amazon.
Ayahuasca is a complex Psychoactive drug that is also said to work cures on the body as well. It is used by the native bush people mostly and is found all over the amazon jungle region of peru, ecuador amd Brazil. They are very much into jungle cures and remedies like herbalsit of the afircan jungles. Jungle peoples are the same around the world, they are very much involved in plant based medicine and magic.

When i went to the Amazon region and tried to stay in the village area resorts, they were all Ayahuasca resorts and it made hard work for me to find a drug free resort for peace and quiet. I didnt go there for any drugs and it is not always safe to just try potent things with random people in strange places just because they say it can cure people and make their life more expanded. Yes many tourist go there and some have died during Ayahuasca experiences.

The Amazon jungle area was lush and extensive, i only saw a very small part of the amazon but there were many such signs as the photo below advertising Ayahuasca resorts.

I left the amazon area quickly, only 8 days there out of an intended 6 months. I lasted 4 months in peru and stayed in a beach side town far from Ayahuasca, mosquitos and the Amazon. I was able to make a christmas trip to Ecuador for a week from the beach town i stayed at in Peru. Ecuador was a good experience and i think next time i will base in ecuador and visit into peru from there. Doing the opposite way next time.
For now i am booked to other destinations for the next two years.

Strange looking reed grass canoe. Ancient invention of the peru natives and they had similar in ancient egypt which leads some to think they used to travel to visit one another and exchange canoe building ideas as well as pyramid building and other ideas. One researcher said Coca leaf residue was found in an ancient mummy in Egypt, How did that arrive in egypt from Peru? How did Egypt and Peru have the same type of reed canoe boat in ancient times? Hmmm.

Jungle fruit Rolinia. Not very common around the world but i first experienced it in Hawaii where they import and grow most tropical fruits from around the world. Not extra sweet but very creamy and delicious.

Some jungle leaf used to make native food wraps similar to what was traditionaly done in Nigeria.

Some photos of what the money looks like in peru.

Peru has the coca plant used to make cocaine. Coca leaf is legal there but not cocaine ,and the leaves are openly sold in the market as shown in a photo below. Those black nylon/plastic bags full of light brown color leaves is the coca leaf and they sell it by the kilo to make tea or just to chew for energy or health needs. I never bought any to try but the hotel served me coca leaf tea one morning with breakfast there. Cocaine is illegal there and the difference between Coca and cocaine is that cocaine is a highly processed and very concentrated substance extracted from the coca leaf.
Coca leaf is not a powerful drug with overly harmful effects. The drug like ingredients in coca leaf are very small compared to the concentrated form in cocaine. Also the coca leaf content is not activated without additional ingredients. That is why the leaf is still legal there for tea and non processed natural remedies.

See the phot of mountains in the distance, They are very far away, they look so close because they are so big and tall.

You can go to the street market and buy live meat of fowl, duck, rabbit, goat, pig and more.

Most of peru is dry desert with nothing growing other than whatever is farmed with irrigation canals from the wide and massive mountain range of the Andes. It truly is a monotone of drab light brown desert color every where.

There is high mountain cold weather living and then there is cool weather coastal desert livng such as in the pictures below. The coastal areas get very green and lush as you move north very close to Ecuador and then once in Ecuador, the desert drab brown is no longer the scene.

The other Peru option is the very remote Lush Amazon jungle full of green growth and wildlife and many rivers leading to the great Amazon River. The amazon jungle area is very remote and on the other side of the Andes mountains from where the sea side photos were taken.
Amazon side of Peru border along Brazil and you can reach Brazil by boat from Peru along the Amazon River which begins in Ecuador and Peru Area. The huge moutains collect the rain and release spring water from below to feed into water ways that add to a sum total called the Amazon. The Amazon owes its might to the even mightier Andes Mountains. Highest Mountains i have ever seen were in Peru.
Peru is a polluted but maybe not so much for someone used to living in Lagos.

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Food is a serious attraction there and Peru is considered the food capital of the world along with Thailand. I habe so many oictures of fresh vegetables from there that i cannot identify. So much. Even the ones i know, they have so many varieties.

Street veiw of Plaza hotel that can accomodate people near the beach for as low as $8 a night if you pay for a week or month block. The quality is as good or better than any in lagos costing a higher price.

They have Llamas a natural domestic animal there. Looks like a cross between a goat, camel and horse.
Peru is famous for very ancient mind blowing Civilization and stone architecture. Their Major food abundance and variety was developed over thousands of years by the ancient natives there and that is the backbone of any major civilization rising.
The truth is that it was the exploitation of Perus native food heritage that allowed USA to grow rapdily into the powerful nation it is and it even helped to grow europe. No nation grows without a good food pantry and the world robbed their best away from Peru. Cocoa, maize, potato, beans and much more came from Peru of ancient times before Europe was even developed.

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You can find traditional and cheaper open street markets or more pricey big shopping malls with very large grocery stores or clothing store and other goods.
The malls rival Nigerias and compare well to USA malls.

Very strange looking variety of potato in one photo below that i first thought was Ginger root.

A picture from a large grocery mall.

Dried Phirana fish from the Amazon river area in Peru.

And the Balcony scene from a beach side hotel i resided at for some time.

cutieme:
@19naia bro,I'd be very grateful and indebted tobu if u can tell us more of your experience and Peru and how one could get their visa from Nigeria here with a Nigerian passport thanks.The pix shows it's a nice place though.

You have to work on the visa yourself, i cant help and never had to do it before, i dont travel with Nigerian passport.
Search online for Peruvian Immigration and search out the visa applications section and follow their instructions. Thats the best advice i can give.
I am not even sure if it is an online application or done by mail order, or maybe done via online and finished via mail order. ?

They have an embassy in Ghana. If you can make it to ghana easily with your Nigerian Passport and then try to see if you can apply from there if you have no luck finding online route to Apply.
They have for Africa, only embassies in South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco and Algeria. Best to try reach Ghana if online no reach.

Peru is the Cocaine capital of the world now and its best to be careful. Nigeria keeps a close eye on people coming and going from that area of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. Even without intent to involve in those things there, you may wander into people while looking for a hustle or opportunity and they will pressure you into traffiking. Nigerians have been known to be there doing that and setting up even americans or europeans to end up being arrested for Traffiking Cocaine.
Be careful or at least accept responsibility for whatever choices you make.

Its not easy to find good paying work there if any work. Europeans and americans also look for work there and find it hard. Some even settle for low paying jobs earning less than $500 a month while some american have been know to live on less than $300 a month while on Peace corp duty.
If you have money to invest there, a business may work for you if you have a demanded service and product. Tourist helper or guide is a good start from nothing if you go there just to find a way.
Agriculture is very big there, Petroleum and mining, schools for education at all levels(spanish speaking schools),Textile industry from the cotton farmed there, fishing and fisheries. The fishing comes from both the ocean and Amazon river, while fisheries include shrimp farming on a scale so large you can see it from the google maps satelite view. I rode a bus through the major shrimp farm area and it smelled so strong of shrimp excrement for many kilometres..
There are stretches of beach where the sardine fish are so thick and swim up to shore, you can just walk up with a small net and catch enough fish for a day in 15 minutes and eat fresh fish every day for months without going out to sea or using a boat or any real equipment. Food is abundant there.
Peru is where Guniea pig farming originated and i included a photo of butchered guniea pig for sale there.
They have very nice cooking style and they are famous for their Yellow Sauce they have at every canteen or local restaurant. Full meals range between $2 and $3 including a small drink, bowl of soup and main course with beans, rice and meat.
Lots of seafood with various types of crabs and shrimp as well as various types of fish including sharks and Rays.
Their markets are always full of wide variety of food. Even when buying corn, there are various types, yellow, white, black, mixed color, big grain, small grain and more. Vegetables are very diverse and plenty. They sell so many types of potato that some will not even be recognized as potato. Potato originated there as well as many of the worlds most popular foods.

cutieme:
@19naia,please show me the link to the thread u created about peru

I cant find it after looking. Maybe it was lost in the great NL data disaster some time ago. A lot of NL topics were lost.

I still have the pictures i used in the topic. They are in my computer files.
Here are some from my time in Lima the capital city of peru. One is the scene at the International airport check in.
Of course the Photos are from the nicer areas of Lima city.

cutieme:
@19naia,bro please can u tell us about Peru and how one can get the visa and Ecuador visa too,thanks

You have to reach out to Peru and their immigration office or department in peru or go to the nearest one to you in Nigeria. Maybe you will find a consulate in a neighboring African country that you can visit?
It cannot be so hard to get the visa if you meet the basic requirements. Peru has an open door policy that almost all countries are free to come and enter Peru for a 90 day stay. .
Its a major way they attract millions of tourist a year to visit and earn big revenues from tourist.
Nigeria is not allowed free entry, only by visa application

Peru is comparable to Ecuador in price but some cultural differences.
Peru is quite the food capital with lots of variety of foods. Low income or salaries are common there in Peru and most of Peru is dry with little to no rain ever. The Amazona regions along and in the rainforest have plenty rain and the mighty amazon river.

I made a topic early last year about my trip to Peru. Search for that on NairaLand here.
I cannot help you apply for visa as i have never had to do that to go. Nigeria and China are among the few nations that have to apply for visa to go there. All others can come and go freely there for 90 day stays.

cutieme:
@19naia,bro please can u tell us about Peru and how one can get the visa and Ecuador visa too,thanks

Visa to Ecuador and Peru is required before travel there.
I think it is easy as long as you meet the requirements and can find a way to apply from NIGERIA to Peru. Maybe by applying online at their Immigration web site.

Requirements such as proof of funds to pay for your stay as well as some other basic info.

I dont know much about tourist visas to Ecuador and Peru because they have open door policy that all but a few nations can come and enter freely for 90 days visit. It is how they make a robust tourist atmosphere. They make lots of revenue from millions of tourist a year.
Unfortunately Nigeria is one of the nations that must go through visa application just to visit. Even China is required to apply for visa. Same with Afghanistan, Eritrea and a very few other countries.
So i cant really offer any asistance other than this info.

If you have a Ghana passport, its ok to go there. Most african nations are free to go there for a 90 day visit with no visa. They just stamp an entry stamp as a visa waiver and you enter.

Peru and Ecuador are comparable in prices but their cultures are a bit different. Ecuador spends US dollar while Peru spends their Nuevo Sol. But as with all south american nations, you can freely spend US dollar any where but you will risk exchange rate disadvantage when you spend dollars as many cashiers will set an exchange rate in favor of themselves.

Just search out "immigration office of Ecuador",or Peru , to find a link to visa application outlets.
I bet its easy to get if you meet the basic requirements such as suffient proof of income or bank balance. Also a valid passport is very important along with a few other documents they may ask for.

Speaking spanish is very important even when dealing with their immigration offices. English speaking is a rare commodity in that part of the world.

Go to Youtube and search out many videos posted about Ecuador.

Search out the two major cities of "Quito" and "Guayaquil".

Other popular cities are Cuenca and Manta.

Manta is a beach tourism city while Guayaquil is the major port and industry city.

Quito is the large capital and commercial city in the high mountains while Cuenca is a popular mountain city for tourism and other commerce.

Guayaquil and Manta are sea level and tropical climate that can be hotter than Nigeria most of the time.

Quito is at 8000 feet while Cuenca is around 6000 feet altitude. Never gets hot there but it can be cold without much risk of ice and snow. Mostly it is very cool weather and comfortable.

They like to live in the mountains there and they have serious mountains in south america Andes mountain range rivaled only by the Himalaya mountain range with mount Everest at the top of the world. Quito is the major city there and so high that new comers often get weak and light headed with headache from the low oxygen of the high altitude. But people easily adjust after some days there.

You will see real mountains and also the Amazon reaches Ecuador . Serious world class Mountains, serious Pacific ocean shores and serious World class jungle of the Amazon. Anaconda dey Ooo.



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Lots of luxury bus services there going all over every country and also across borders. The prices are also very good. Very good prices on many things. Not easy to make a lot of money there, but its very possible.
Its for sure cheaper than Nigeria with a quality and standard to rival Nigeria.
Nigeria is very overpriced.

Its a budget friendly destination to tourist from all over Europe, america and beyond.
Amazon jungle reaches into Ecuador also if you like bush things and anacondas.

I was in Peru and Ecuador 2013-2014 and will be going back to Ecudaor in the next few years after i finish my rounds to other world destinations.

Ecuador is not a bad country but that is if you can get there legally, and hustling there is possible if you speak Spanish.
Spanish is a must. If you have a University degree and you speak english well, you may be able to land a job teaching english but even so ,Spanish speaking is required to commmunicate with students that know no english.

If you dont speak english, expect to struggle to fit in or make a living even in a job as simple as a janitor.

Good news is that it is Cheaper in Ecuador than Nigeria and easy to find better quality or standard of living in all areas of Ecuador. Nigeria is overpriced and you will see that clearly in countries like Ecuador.
Ecuador spends the US dollar as their currency.

Ecuador has stricter policies on overstaying a visit visa. Best to secure a work visa before going, but that requires securing employment invitation from a company there.

Visitor visa is a 90 day limit and allows for one extension for a total of 6 months in any one year.

I was able to cross the border between ecuador and Peru freely without any check point search or immigration road blocks. There are free pass areas of the borders for anyone to cross. There are also proper channels where immigration will clear people with the correct documentation and entry or exit stamps. I crossed at the free cross zone for a few hours and then went to the immigration control check point to get my passport documented and stamped. I used US passport. Not as simple with a Nigerian Passport.

Lots of Hustling done in Ecuador, There are tourist from all over the world there and people hustle to help tourist and earn dollars from them. If you speak english, you can really do good by hustling to help tourist. But speaking spanish is still important to live there among the locals.
Dont expect to move in and just hustle whatever among the locals who are sensitive about people just coming in and moving in on their hustle opportunities. They struggle to survive also. They can be rascist there but are generally kind people.
Crime has been rising in the major cities and word of that spreads in tourist blogs that share details about ecuador.

If you are brave and just dont care, or you have all your things in order to do well in Ecuador, then by all means go,go and go.
It is a worthy adventure. Even Americans, Europeans spend money and time eager to go and see Ecuador. I call USA home and i would still visit Ecuador for adventure.
Peru and Colombia border Ecuador and you can easily get in to visit those places once you are in Ecuador.
Dont go to Ecuador with no money, thats your best chance of being deported or entering other types of trouble. If you dont speak spanish, start learning before going and have enough savings or a secured job to hold you for a year there while you do serious effort in learning the language and ways there.
After that, you may find it quite fun using english to help tourist who always have some money and need english speakers to show and explain the place to them.
Trust me, Ecuador and Peru are huge tourist countries with lots of USA and European people visiting always. Many of them also leave USA and Europe to retire with their pensions there.

Salaries in South america are low and a regular university degree job can still be limited to $500 a month salary unless you work with an international company with USA or European pay scales.
The tourist industry is much more potential if you work for yourself helping tourist. Your income is limited to how many tourist you can help. If you speak english, you will have the advantage of being able to help many more tourist because most of them will naturally prefer your service over the service of a language they do not understand, there is much confusion and risk of being cheated, so tourist rather pay an english speaker for less confusion.

These pictures below are from a small town in Ecuador right on the border with Peru.
The hotel i stayed had Wifi included and i paid $12 a night. Thats about #2400 naira a night. It had AC, quality shower and toilet, included satelite TV and a very nice bed and beddings. Very neat and modern looking.
The same in Nigeria would cost no less than #10,000.oo naira a night. "nigeria is overpriced"
Ecuador is not as nice as USA or Europe, but it offers much better standard of living than Nigeria and definitley a much better price.
Food is around $3 or #600naira for basic local two course meal and a drink to fill even a big eater. Usually Soup with meat, rice ,beans, plantain and some chcken. The drink is usually a sweet fruti drink made fresh in the kitchen. Local Canteens or market food vendors. Home cook food can be even cheaper with plenty cheap options for bread, eggs and even cheap package noodles.
They also have all the high life options and some american fast food and slow food restaurants like KFC, Mcdonalds and TGIF and more.

Nigeria is seriously over priced, if you dont believe me, go to south america countries such as Ecuador and Peru. Always light, water and better organized with less risk.. Just have spanish speakng skills under your hat.

It is considered an endangered snake by snake researchers. Best to try and chase them away or relocate them far away, but i cant blame someone for killing such a deadly snake if found in or very near their living and working areas.
Gaboon viper. Very deadly and not a snake to joke around or play with.

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warranger:
Can someone tell me the name of this snake in English and Igbo language?

Gaboon Viper. Very deadly venemous and has among the fastest striking bite of any snake.
Very well camouflged and with enough venom to bring certain death to any man it bites.

Very beautiful snake to see for its color patterns..
Not to be joked or played around with, even the head after death is best burnt to ashes or buried deep.
I fear this snake more than cobra. Cobra gives fair warning, but this Gaboon viper is faster in its strike and possibly more devastating in its venoms effect.
See the photos below that show it and its fang size. Among the largest fangs of any type of snake on earth.