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This is the page where we put all our blogs. As we move around the globe you can follow what we are up to. If you are interested in a specific country just click on the link in the sidebar. All our date stamps are set to South African time (GMT +02:00). Only the most recent posts will show on this page. For previous posts choose from the list in the side bar or go directly to blogs of countries we have already visited.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Nariz del Diablo

Unfortunately we succumbed to the temptation to do the very touristy thing to travel on the roof of a train down a mountain (called the devil's nose) with 100s of other tourists. Well we did not really know that there would be so many tourists and that it would be so unauthentic. But on the other hand the scenery was beautiful and we did cover some distance! So we went straight and then down and then up (7 hours in total)... and we caught a bus to Cuenca. And that is about it!

Culture shock: Ecuadorians always jump the queue, bumping you out of the way and are generally unfriendly; we realised that the reason the women walk slowly is that all of them wear high heels to add some height.

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