ECUADOR
03.12.2005
23 °C
Ecuador is a beautiful place. Flying into Quito revealed numerous white-capped volcanoes poking through the cloudbase, as Quito itself (shaped a bit like a banana!) spread out below us.
The town of Baños is really picturesque. Lying in the bubbling yellow brown waters heated by the volcano Tunguraua, at the foot of a 50metre waterfall was proof enough.
The spanish is quite slowly spoken here, which will make studying it much easier. Been teaching for 3 days now and it´s no bother. Students are nice and friendly, motivated and a good laugh.
Apartment comes witht the job. Very nice rooftop number, surrounded by misty green slopes with zig-zigging pastureland up seemingly impossible ascents.
In Riobamba at the moment, to visit the market. Pigs slumbering in cages, chicklets wedged in to boxes and my big feet tripping over streetside guavas.
Tomorrow is the Nariz del diablo (nose of the devil) train ride from alausi to sibambe and bak. ride on the roof with a wee cushion and a pack of fried bananas.
photos to come!
What do you know about the skate and youth culture in Qutio and the rest of Ecuador. I will bring my camera and my pen and paper and I would like to find good cool things to document, while I and my brother travell down the cost with the surfboards under the right arm and the skateboard under the other.
can you help me?
05.12.2005 by la alto