Alausi, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Devil´s nose tourist trap
Jun 6, 2008 (3 photos)

... a better description. Both of the guidebooks we have describe the trip in glowing terms, one saying it is a highlight of visiting Ecuador. One reads: 'Experience one of the world's great feats of railway engineering from the roof of a train as it descends ...

The Devil´s Nose (filled with snot)
May 16, 2007

... 5:30am, and get in line for tickets on the "Devil´s Nose" (El Nariz del Diablo) train, which goes from Riobamba to Alausi, then goes down a famously scenic valley to Sibambe and back to Alausi. All the guide books rave about this trip, and recommend buying ...

train ride down the devil´s nose
Jul 8, 2006 (3 photos)

... the train trundled into town we hopped onto the roof and joined a couple hundred other gringos who had boarded further up the track. from alausí we started down the nariz del diablo, or ¨devil´s nose¨, a series of switchbacks that took us to the floor of the ...

Nariz del Diabolo
Dec 19, 2007 (9 photos)

... I am glad I made the effort to get on the train. Once we arrived in Alusi after 7 hours I got on the buss to Ecuador's biggest city Guayaquil. The buss trip was 10 times rougher than the famous train trip. Many 6 point turns to get around corners on ...

Alausí
Jul 25, 2007

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Oh how we adore Ecuador!
Jan 25, 2009 (30 photos)

Lush, green, and friendly We breathe a sigh of relief And tropical air Leaving Peru behind, we crossed into Ecuador and were met at the border by a tree filled with wild monkeys. It was an auspicious beginning in what is ...

All aboard
Oct 16, 2005 (3 photos)

... Alausi from where we would catch the train. For once we were not the only foreigners - the bus was full of them. Once at Alausi we reluctantly left our bags in what can only be described as a cow shed got lucky and bought our tickets for the train. ...

Train from Riobamba to Alausi
Oct 13, 2004 (9 photos)

Train snaps.

La Nariz del Diablo
Jan 27, 2006 (11 photos)

... and back up to Alausi. The rail route from Quito to Guayaquil was started in 1899 and eventually ended up coming to Alausi where it met a steep slope of pure rock... no less intimitading that the devils nose! From there workers blasted away switchback ...

Railroad (mis)adventures
Mar 9, 2005 (4 photos)

... for a shower" sense. The plan was to take the scenic train ride from Riobamba this morning. One hundred years ago, Ecuador constructed a railroad track that went from Guayaquil on the coast, up into the Andes mountains and ended up in Quito. The ...

Alauisi & Devil's Nose Train Ride
Sep 26, 2007

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Torro! Torro! Torro!
Jun 28, 2008 (3 photos)

After a few hours at the market in Zumbahua, I took a series of busses south to Alausi. This is the starting point for the rooftop train ride through the Nariz de Diablo; yes that's the Devil's Nose. I timed this arrival to coincide with the Sunday ...

Eisenbahn
Aug 14, 2007 (3 photos)

... hat. Da werd ich morgen hin, bin schon gespannt. Heute hatte ich den nettesten tagestreck bisher ueberhaupt entdeckt. Von alausi immer die eisenbahnlinie welche seit el nino nur noch hier arbeitet heruntergelaufen, wild west feeling, habe mir ueberlegt wie ...

nariz del diablo train ride - riobamba to alausi
Aug 30, 2006 (10 photos)

Devil´s nose train ride from Riobamba to Alausi

Running With The Bulls- Devil´s Nose Train
Jun 30, 2008 (83 photos)

... town was watching. Dance groups had been practising for weeks leading up to the event. Folklorica groups from all over rural Ecuador paraded down the mainstreet performing energetic dances all the way in the scorching heat. A couple of people fainted. The ...

famous Devil nose train ride!
Jun 2, 2006 (11 photos)

Nariz del Diablo!(Devil nose)

crazy fast train journey!
Jun 2, 2006

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How Old People Become Children
Apr 30, 2008 (30 photos)

... Riobamba, when they arrive at Alausi a few want to get inside, while another 20 tourists want to get on board at Alausi (including ourselves). Of course as there are no reserved seats, chaos breaks out every single time and there is pushing, stamping, ...

The Nariz del Diablo
Apr 1, 2005 (1 photos)

... train standing in the doorway of the station, i bought a ticket and the next morning found out that you have to take a bus to Alausi for the last hour of the train ride. The train was certainly old and knackered. In fact one of the sleepers underneath the ...

Alausi
May 17, 2008

17th May 2008 Today I caught the bus from Cuenca for the journey to Alausi. It only took around 4 hours and arrived into Alausi at around 1pm but the bus didn't stop in Alausi, so I had to alert the driver to stop. Before I knew we were pulling out of the ...

Alausi, the devils nose train...
Jul 30, 2006 (9 photos)

Great stopover for the Devils nose train ride if you go on the Sunday train ride. Why? Awesome local markets. One is a fruit and vege market where the aromas of herbs fill the air. The other market is the local bulkmarket where they buy wheats and fruits ...

South America Tour - Ecuador - Alausi
Aug 14, 2007 (3 photos)

Here to ride the Devil's Nose train.

You can´t make this shit up...
Mar 20, 2006

... have taxis at least in these costal towns that we´ve been thru so far. Oh, and the dogs are friendly here unlike most in Ecuador. (I miss Margo!) Oh, as a side note, we ran into a few guys that tried to ride the train back to Riobamba. Apparentely the ...

Alausi
Nov 25, 2007 (26 photos)

The trip on the train to Alausi starts at 7am and is due to finish at 12. We got in at 4pm. In short it is a train ride to a town reachable by a 2 hour bus. Tourists used to go on top of the train untill some Japanese tourist decapitated himself on a ...

Tourist Trap
Apr 2, 2008

... the Pan-American (they don't stop in town) and hopped in.  The bus ride was pretty.  Driving the roads of Ecuador involves a lot of windy mountain roads, going down one side of the valley, only to go up the other side, cross over the ...

Nariz del Diablo
Oct 4, 2006 (14 photos)

... fa decisamente troppa polvere. - probabilmente, visto il costo di 11 dollari cadauno, il treno realizza meta' del Pil dell'ecuador - non ci sono praticamente locali che prendono il treno, solo tuisti - il deragliamento e'un ottima scusa per tomar lunch! ...

Nowhere special just trying to get the bloody trai
Dec 27, 2006

Just getting map pins in right place for this mornings adventures

A train down the devils throat
Oct 30, 2009

We had to take a 2 hour bus ride from Riobamba but the train ride (or more like a bus with train wheels) ride down the mountainside was pretty cool. The rails where cut into the side of the mountain and there where qutie a few switchbacks on the way when ...

Day 116 -Alausi - San Pedro
Oct 20, 2009

... the base. We grabbed our swimmers and went back to the thermal baths for a last chance for some relaxation before heading to Alausi. After an hour we returned to collect our bags from our hotel lobby which was conveniently next to the bus terminal. As we ...

Alausi, Ecuador
Sep 24, 2006

Alausi, Ecuador