Dice 7:00 am the mist settles. We leave all three decided to walk around the lagoon. Located a few meters from the hospedaje, the view is actually released. We can even see the top of Cotopaxi the second highest volcano in Ecuador. Legend has it that the locals have never have really probed the depths of the lagoon which therefore has infinite depths. Only foreign scientists have developed a depth of 250 meters. We walk along the ridge and around the volcano are completing in 5:00. Since the crater is fantastic view over the surrounding valley. Far required a deep canyon in the valley. Thousands of parcels torn from aridity and cold draw the landscape. Shaped by man, these crops are grown on steep slopes and even sometimes very steep. They are cultivated by hand, worked with picks and donkey as a function of the amplitude the slope. Shades of green and brown shape the landscape and give it all its particularity.
Around 12:00 we go back to the hospedaje. Time to eat and say goodbye and I hit the road. For an hour I ride in the rain and mist on a muddy path that can see only a few meters away. Then time emerges down the valley. The road is a spectacle of images. A daughter come home from school wears his little sister on her back. Women bring a herd of sheep on their farm.
The eyes that I meet are worried, surprised or elated. Kids give a thumbs up on my way to cries of Ola. I go to school every village. I am always surprised and full of admiration of even these small schools still existed in these so small mountain villages. The children are dressed in their uniforms. The girls wear the skirt and sombrero local. In two hours I think a motorcycle, a truck that came close to crushing and two buses making the connection between Chugchilan and Sigchos.
Sigchos Arrived at the road improves, I am only an hour of Latacunga and Pan American. Then I push up Riobamba located a few miles from the highest volcano Chimborazo Ecuador and the most beautiful. I arrive in the rain. The time to find a room for 6 U.S. dollars, I eat and lie down.
The next morning I went to Calpe. Yves, a friend of Nicolas, who also lives in Bogota, gave me the contact Pierrick, which gives a French daily Mass in the village of Calpi located a few miles from Riobamba, and promotes cooperation projects. Arrived early morning Quilla Capari home eco tourism where he lives and where I'll stay a few days, it is not there. He went on tour for the day in the highlands of Chimborazo and will return around midday.
I intend to spend time in the community where I am and in the vicinity. Friday I plan to climb Chimborazo with an ice cutter called Balthazar. The man goes every Thursday and Friday on the glacier volcano about 6000mètres altitude to recover from the ice will resell the market on Saturday and Sunday. A real challenge for me to follow him. This weekend I leave for the Inca Trail for 2 to 3 days, the famous route from there over 500 years to reach the Inca Cuzco to Quito. I think I will be accompanied by a guide familiar with the father Pierrick. These few days are an opportunity to ask for better feel around me and walk in the hills. Have long waited this.
I intend to spend time in the community where I am and in the vicinity. Friday I plan to climb Chimborazo with an ice cutter called Balthazar. The man goes every Thursday and Friday on the glacier volcano about 6000mètres altitude to recover from the ice will resell the market on Saturday and Sunday. A real challenge for me to follow him. This weekend I leave for the Inca Trail for 2 to 3 days, the famous route from there over 500 years to reach the Inca Cuzco to Quito. I think I will be accompanied by a guide familiar with the father Pierrick. These few days are an opportunity to ask for better feel around me and walk in the hills. Have long waited this.
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