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ZURUECK ZUM STANDARD LAYOUT
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Reaching the border - every time a great moment
Riding through Tulcan with Oscar the Colombian
Goodbye Colombia
Valley Chota - the highway is used for different purposes
Climbing to Ibarra ...
... and a glimpse back
Atuntaqui - our first TV interview (I hardly knew what to say :-))
I know I fit better on a bike
Some don't mind to be caught on a photo …
... others do
Where is the ball? ...
... and where is the man? :-)
Quito ...
... a city with beauty
The view from Pichinche ...
... a sea of lights
Climbing volcano Cotopaxi: 1 - 7 a.m.
Through nice ice fields
Done - at the top with our guide, Diego
The crater and Chimborazo in the back
Descending - Antizana, the neighbour volcano
Side trip to the Amazonas - Rio Napo
A time to relax our legs
Camping on a sand bank under an awesome sky...
… with a unique sun set over the rain forest
National Parc Yasuní
I am and always will be an Amazonas freak for life:
That's one of the reasons.
The other side of the Ecuadorian jungle:
Oil drilling and destruction of the rainforest
On a house wall, the other view of the things
We hope there is no anaconda. :-)
Omar opening a Cacao:
The pulp is sweet.
Would you like to grow up in one of these nests?
Green parrots eating soil
The funny monkies
A boa - the drawing on the skin, always a beauty
I like the baby, it is so smooth.
Heavy traffic in miniature
Black widow - you can find them at night
A tiny cayman; in ten years it won't be a pet anymore.
Piraña fishing, I was rather feeding them :-)
Back to the road - Stefan, the stowaway
Chimborazo, 6310m
How great to ride here.
One of the many breaks...
... with a spectacular view to Alausí.
Ecuador - one mountain after the other
Ecuador - good and cheap food (each plate 1.80$)
Pig roasted by blowpipe - Would you still eat that? :-)
Old school farming
A special way of transportation
Swiss encounter in Vilcabamba
Break up on a remoted road to Peru:
A steady up and down
Riding through the cloud forest
The gravel road along the hill
The special character of the cloud forest
Relaxing in one of the few isolated villages
That's how small rivers are being crossed
Jungle bridge
If you slide on this you fall down 5m.
The tough gravel ride was totally worthwhile to be chosen.
Coffee berries are dried first...
... and the beans afterwards.
Jungle soccer - the goals are made of palm tree stems.
What a lovely house - the typical style is often preserved.
Sleeping in a school - thank you.
The illumination...
... and the clouds in the early mornings
The strong sun during the hot and wet day...
... requires breaks in the shade.
After every climb follows the reward:
Tired but satisfied - that's one impression I expected of riding the "Panamerican Highway".
Ecuador is just awesome.
Count the legs!
Leaving Ecuador by the calmest border cross, (btw. read the police verses over the window!)