Our World Journey

Ecuador

This blog decribes our 26 days of travel through Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (22 June 2006 - 18 July 2006).The Galapagos Islands were simply fantastic. We also got to see many land iguanas in Guayaquil, explore cloud forests, visit local markets and hike to waterfalls.

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.

posted by Johan & Janine at 3:24 AM  

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  • Quito and Otavalo
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  • Galapagos Islands!
  • Arriving in Ecuador