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Friday, October 22, 2010

Into Ecuador

Two long travel days back to back to get us into Ecuador. The first started in Mocoa, Colombia as we traveled on the so-called "road of death", a one lane unpaved road through waterfalls and into the clouds, from 2000ft straight up to 9000ft then going down to the valleys at 7000ft. Then climbing back up through a pass at 10000ft before ending the day in Ipiales at 9000ft.

The next day started with site seeing in Ipiales (the church in Las Lajos that spans a river gorge), crossing the border into Ecuador at Tulcan and visiting the cemetery famous for its topiary (one of the most surreal places ever), a loooooong sloooow bus ride to Otavalo, but ending on a high note with a tremendous dinner of Chinese food ala Otavalo Ecuador.

Plaza La Pola - Ipiales
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Santuario de Las Lajas
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Cementerio de Tulcan
Topiary - Cemetario Tulcan - Tulcan, Ecuador

Chifa (Chinese Restaurant)
Chifa (Chinese Restaurant) - Otavalo, Ecuador
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3 comments:

  1. Crash Eddy24 October, 2010

    John's two buddies look like the model for Shrek.

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  2. Susan in Florida25 October, 2010

    "the church in Las Lajos that spans a river gorge"<==Y'all did some incredible research to find all this stuff. And people like me ..... very much appreciate you sharing it with us.

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  3. john26 October, 2010

    Susan,
    Don't want to demystify any traveler's secrets but us visiting the church in Las Lajos is just like first time visitors to Key West taking a photo at the southernmost point in the US, they all know about it and do it; the same goes for that church, it's in all the guide books with detailed instructions on how to get to it by bus and taxi.

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