Blogs from Riobamba, Centre, Ecuador, South America - page 10

Got back from the Galapagos and had a dinner with everyone from the boat. We all ended up in the same hotel which was great! After a week of sharing a cabin where only one person could be in the cabin at one time (unless the other was in bed!). I soon had all my belongs sprawled out all over the place and a huge pile to send to the wash. Had to continue to take motion sickness tablets as was now feeling land sick - no swaying was causing a problem! I was not the only one and we decided that the only thing to do was to go out and have a couple of cocktails with dinner. Strong cocktails, being up at 6 am and altitude effects had us all yawning and in bed ... read more

Salut tout le monde, suite au dernier petit message je crois que je me dois de vous donner plus de details. Nous sommes a RioBamba depuis maintenat 3 jours. Et oui... Alors, je tiens tout dAbord à mentioner que la bière ici ne coute pas plus cher quA Quito et quElle est toujours aussi bonne. Ceci est le petit appendice de mon courriel pour le Club des Champions. Ne vous en faite pas!! On garde la forme. Plus sérieusement, RioBamba est une jolie ville remplie encore une fois de gens sympathiques et souriant. Depuis notre départ de Quito cest le Carnival dans tout lÉquateur. Carnival qui dure en moyenne deux semaines et qui, groso modo, consiste à déambuler dans les rues et lancer des bambas, de la farine, des oeufs et du truc qui pue en ... read more

Ok, so after arriving from Baños we spent one night in Riobamba in a hostel called Los Shyris near the train station. We bumped in to Stuart, an Australian guy that we did the Guagua hike with in a restaurant that night. He was in Riobamba for the same reason as us, to do the Devil's Nose train journey to Alausi - sitting on the roof of the train. This is a train run pretty much solely for tourists and one of the few (maybe only) train routes still in operation in Ecuador. The restaurant that we met Stuart in wasn´t great so we warned him against it (a far from accurate lonely planet recommendation). Next morning he kept us two seats on top of the train, we got there for about 6am, a bit later ... read more