Well this weekend started out like any other...I figured I´d get on a bus, that was sure to be driven excessively fast, eat some questionable bus fare and was bound to arrive at my destination about 4 hours after departure. Well the trip started in Puyo at about 500m and rose to a dramatic level, passing the base of Volcano Chimborazo at 6300m. I went from the sweltering junle to icy roads and snow covered peaks in a short few hours. The road only got scarier from there. The driver seemed to ignore what I at first thought was over-used PELIGRO (danger) signs, but before I knew it, the road was littered with crosses bearing the marks of where countless people had lost their lives on the all too slippery roads. Somewhow we made it down
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