Another travel day today. Only 2 hours, but still splits the day. For second night on a row we had a guest in our room. Not someone we invited, or wanted...actually it could have been several guests with the noise they were making. The first night in the Hostal "Europa" we were woken up by something attacking a plastic bag with food...a small mo...

The main reason for our stop over in this place was to try and do what they call the devils nose train journey. We didn't manage to do it as the tickets were all sold out by the time we turned up and we didn't have time to wait two days to get the next one. You can ride on top of the train for the entire journey of 5 to 6 hours and the scenery i...

Took a day tour into the Chimborazo national park. It was supposed to be a drive to 4800m, then a hike up to the lodge at 5000m, lunch, then bike down to 2900m, the longest descent I would have ever done. However, all good plans and all that, then the van got ill and we only made it to 4200m. The change of plans resulted in drive down an unsurfa...

I am afraid of dogs. The first step to conquering your fears is admitting to them, so there it is. It all started as a small child thanks to the yappy Scottish terrier that lived next door. After his welcome death I started to relax a little. The years went by and I started to feel comfortable around dogs, even almost developing some affection f...

Hello, Yesterday we took a train ride south of Riobamba down a stretch of track called La Nariz del Diablo (the devil´s nose). This section of railway is the only part of the track that is still functioning of the trans-andean railway which once ran from Guayaquil to Quito. La Nariz del Diablo is a series of switchbacks that allows the train to ...

The first thing we did after arriving in Riobamba was head to the Train Station which was only a few blocks from our Hostal. The train leaves at 7am but we were told to be there by six to be able to ride on top. Saturday is their big market day but they were already taking some things down by the time we got there so, we went to a wedding. It wa...

In the morning, we happily left Latacunga again, and caught a bus to Riobamba. The bus dropped us off on the edge of town, literally dumping our bags in the dirt and we had no idea where we were. We tried to ask a lady standing near us, but she could only point us in the right direction. We were standing on the side of the road trying to decide ...

we got to riobamba kind of late today and checked into a decidedly more dubious (but cheaper) hotel just off a large market area. in fact, riobamba had a more dubious feel to it than alausí, which had a certain small town charm to it. we could see all of alausí from our perch on the panamericana before we walked down into town. riobamba, on the ...

Riobamba, after leaving the hostel we went to the guayaqill bus station. As we got out of the cab both of us got hounded by guys selling tickets. They weren't even interested in where we are heading. So we left them and found a ticket office who sold us a ticket to a bus departing in 5 minutes. Perfect, the faster we can leave the better. 4 hour...

First impressions of Riobamba were really good, a nice looking town in lovely surroundings. We also had a contact from Maria Alicia (Simona´s Junior Chamber bod in Quito) called Carlos, who´d offered us hospitality ... So we got in touch with him (as instructed by his email) once we´d arrived. It was quite funny because he claimed via email that...