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Back in the good ol’ U.S. of A. today… and it is probably not surprising to our faithful readers (both of you) that I came home with one last dance with Montezuma. Yep. A souvenir I didn’t have to pay for. Wheeee!
Today we visited Mitad del Mundo (middle of the world), a monument built to recognize the location of the Equator in the country that bears its name (Ecuador). The bus ride out to the monument took a while to find (Lonely Planet says to look for pink buses - these do not exist) but we prevailed. The bus was also silly crowded (as usual).
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So we made it to Otavalo, the town with the supposedly largest market in South America. The night before market day (i.e. Friday night) we ate at a pizza place that, as do lots of touristy restaurants, has a menu with English on one side and Spanish on the other. We had to laugh when we were looking through the menu and saw that the toppings for the vegetarian pizza contained “clifford”. That sounds not only carnivorous but Read the rest of this entry »
For fans of the Motorcycle Diaries, you’ll love this story. Alberto and Ernesto set out aboard a 1939 Norton 500. Our bike was 66 years newer and its engine had only half the displacement (250cc), but how mighty it was. It hauled us up the hill north of town as fast as we wanted to go. A couple thousand vertical feet of windy dirt roads in just over 20 minutes. I was grinning from ear to ear, remembering the glory days of riding dirt bikes in Oklahoma while taking in the smoky views of the active Volcán Tungurahua.
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El Nariz del Diablo is a section of train tracks that descend a steep slope between the town of Alausi and the abandoned community of Sibambe by traversing back and forth along a hillside. There are exactly two switchbacks, meaning the train goes in reverse for only one section of track. Lonely Planet described it as, “hair-raising switchbacks”. I’m fairly certain the only thing that happened to my hair is that it got wet from the rain.
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We tried to blend in. We bought a beautiful bag that looks like what the indigenous women carry as soon as we flew into Lima 4 months ago. We though for sure this bag would disguise us as locals. Read the rest of this entry »
From Cusco we high-tailed it to Trujillo, on the coast, north of Lima. We stayed in the nearby beach town of Huanchaco. From there we visited the Chan Chan ruins and 2 of the nearby huacos (temples) from the Chimú society (pre-Inca). Unlike the Incas, Read the rest of this entry »
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