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August 1st 2008

Published: August 5th 2008

Hello friends and family...it´s been quite some time since I´ve sat a this computer on this blog site, and lots have happened. First, a little bad news. I had taken photos of our first two weeks in southern Ecuador, and accidently deleted them, so sorry, not only for you all, but for Robin and I. Luckily we met up with a great cruising couple, named Terry and Tammy of s/v Secret o´Life, also... Read Full Entry

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Small Colectivo Bus

Crammed into a small bus with a puppy and chickens makes for such a cozy ride...

Transfer area

Transfering from a small van to a small toyota wagon 4 x 4 to next destination, Jaen. (no I didn´t spell it wrong)

Mountian ride to next town

A long ride, but much more comfortable with only four of us in the station wagon, and a genial driver to boot.

Road work and rock slides

Par for our course of back country travel. We tried not to think about it too much.

Pit stop for radiator water

Me taking a photo of rock cliff, again thanx Terry

Hiking to Kuelop

Upon reaching Chachapoyas, we headed out to Kuelop for a tour group of the famous fortress. Breathing still hard..ugg!

Nice addition

LLamas grazing outside of the fortress. Good photo op

Entrance to the Fortress

One of three entrances. Begins wide and narrows to only one person can pass through, great safety option

Lots of growth

Lots of plants, jungle-ish growth over the ruins.

Fellow trekkers unite

One kilometer to go, yeah!

Farmland outside the fortress

People would farm outside and at night come into the walls where their homes would be for the evening.

Vista of mountain roads

Very curvy, narrow along the mountainsides. Vista from the fortress

Family bones

Poeple would put their family´s bones inside the walls of their homes for good omens.

Bromeliads all over the place

Quite a beautiful site covering the ruins here.

Home of the Chachapoyas

Our guide explaining how the house was used.

View of circular homes

Chachapoyas homes in Kuelap

Unhardy types

You can take a horse up the 2 km path to Kuelap

Afternoon drizzle

Always carried out raincoats, afternoon were a little cloudy and sometimes drizzly.

Tire fixing stop to Celendin

Impressed with their resourcefulness, good group of brothers and relatives ran this outfit.

View from 14,000ft

Top of the mountains before decending to the river, then ascending again.

Lunch stop

Many of our bus rides would stop around lunch time somewhere out in nowhere´sville for a tipico lunch. Sometimes they were good, sometimes nothing to write about.

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