Under the warm and wet air of the west Amazon side, we cyle in the jungle with various birdsongs, often unusual and sometimes really strange! Plants, insects and birds colors pierce the green of the vegetation. The slope is more and more steap, as we beggin our last and long ascent until 4100m, last pass before ... Quito.
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living diversity of the jungle
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Truits drying over the ember, before being grilled and liberate
an amazing smoked taste for the almuerzo
an amazing smoked taste for the almuerzo
Fortunately, we are close to our last destination...
Equipements are getting weak!
Thomas´s chain broke twice during the ascent.
Equipements are getting weak!
Thomas´s chain broke twice during the ascent.
101km... of Quito
at 101.9km... per hour!
The wind with us, in the descent to Quito
Quito
Rangy city, strangled in between two mountain slopes. The historic center in the south has a cultural atmosphere. Steeples dominate in the sky, whereas prosperous colonial buildings mark the side of cobblestone streets. Further north, the new centre is very modern, living at night with planty of bars, comfortable cyber-coffee and shining buildings. While we are looking for cardboards to pack our bikes, we enjoy the stay in that pretty capital and drink a couple of beres to celebrate the arrival of this long and amazing trip.
The Plaza Grande, in the heart of the historic center
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We reach it, good job!
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In the 18th century, the french geodesic expedition, led by La Condamine aimed at find the precise line of the middle of the earth. A monument was built and a yellow line painted on the equator. Our GPS reveale that the real equator is not on the line... where all tourists take pictures, but 131 arcsecond further north!
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