Yesterday's train trip was spectacular, but.... as they were getting closer to the final and most exciting part of the trip, the climb to 4000m, it turned out an earthquake the day before had damaged the rails. A bit of an anti-climax... so back they went with the train to Riobamba!Riobamba is a small town, people try to live of what they can make, the houses are in poor condition. Simple and the prices are ridiculosly low of course, from our point of view that is! Since the hotel is not in the center of town, Tim and Bram tried to find a place for dinner last night... not easy. The best place they missed, they couldn't imagine that THAT place was actually a restaurant. Second place was kind of a living room, divided in 4 parts, where starters came at 0.80$ and main dishes at 3$. Lot's of piggy food, rather geasy. Tim got greedy and ordered an extra starter, now he's got the cramps. Nothing serious though.
Today is the mountain bike ride down the Chimborazo face... From the earth’s core this mountain is the highest in the world and biking it downhill is an unequalled experience. From Riobamba a 4WD will take them to Carrel Brothers mountain refuge at 4800 mts. of altitude. From here, if well acclimatized and weather conditions permit, you can trek up to 5450 m. Biking start
s at 4800 mts. On their way down they might spot vicuñas and other fauna in their natural habitat, observe the impressive La Chorrera canyon and amazing views of Colta lake, the Riobamba valley and great mountain ranges capped with six snowpeaks. Have a safe ride and don't forget to put on your helmets!! Stay tuned...
2 comments:
Jenny - The updates are GREAT! Keep 'em coming.
Cheers, Kris.
It's just amazing what you can do nowadays, you google anything and voila.. there's an image or information to use.. It's actually fun to do your research and you learn a lot too! But of course I get all the basic feed from Brigitte through Tim; not making up anything here ;-)
Happy you like the reading. Stay tuned.. xx Siz
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