Sunday, April 02, 2006
4100 Meters
Well, I got up this morning with the best intention of taking the train
from Riobamba for the "Devil's Nose." I arrived there and waited till the train arrived There was me and some 70 other people waiting for the train. What turned up was what I call a yellow school bus on a track. They call it an Autoferro. Anyway,
the first 25 get on the roof. When there is no more room there the rest squish inside. The whole point of this trip is the ride on top of the train to see
the scenery, not to be a sardine, so I decided to not go. I may try again on Wednesday. So I came down here to Banos, a rather uneventful drive to a very touristy town on the Gringo trail. Well, you get to these places along the way, cannot help these things.
Check out this picture. The barricade says, "Don't run, move slowly as you are at 4100 meters above sea level."
