a train ride and some incan ruins to go with it

ok, where was I?


That sunday we woke up at 4am to eat breakfast and catch a bus to alausí by 5am. We wanted to take the train all the way from riobamba to alausí, but there was a mudsilde on the tracks between these two points. Oh well.
Getting on the train in alausí was a major cluster fuck of pushy tourist and pushy ecuadorians all wanting the best seat on the train to see la nariz del diablo bit of track. Heidi and I followed a coupld of other tricky people who used the method of sending one person to the train and one to get tickets. The train ride itself was not that thrilling. Had some good views and it was fun to ride and old-time train. The ride lasted about an hour and a half.
When we got back to the station we bought a bus ticket to Tambo from which we caught a taxi to ingapirca, the most important incan ruins ecuador. Roads were horrible from all the rain and our cab broke down after taking on a rather large pot hole. After about 20 minutes it started running again, which was good cause i certaintly did not want to walk the rest of the way in the rain. With a little luck the rain stopped once we arrived at the ruins. I love going to ruins. I don't why exactly, i kjust like to image what they were when people lived there; what they looked like, what people did in their daily lives, stuff like that. Had a good time walkig through the buildings and taking pictures. Did not stay for too long because we wanted to get to cuenca before it got dark. Took another cab back to Tambo, which had no buses to cuenca, so took a smaller bus to cañar. Tons of people along the way covered in flour or baking powder..not entirely sure. I managed to avoid that particular method of attack throughout the holiday. From cañar we caught a bus to Cuenca and got in around 6pm. So in the end it only took us 4 buses and a train to get to Cuenca, the city i have been wanting to see since i got to ecuador.


...and sorry still no pics :(