The Devil´s Nostril

Oops, just realized that I uploaded some of these photos without rotating them. Oh well, connection here is a bit slow so we´ll have to live with it for a while.

Our trip down the devil´s nostril ended up quite difficult. All the tickets from Riobamba has sold out so we had to catch a bus to Alausu (sp?) and then hang around until around 1ish to actually get the train.

Alausu is a pleasant place, bit quiet and a bit weird:



The train turned out to be a bus like contraption on tracks. But the views were spectacular.



Halfway through the trip they let us all sit on the roof (apparently this isn´t really allowed anymore as a tourist was decapititated a few months back!).

Riobamba

Left Baños and on our way to Cuenca. From there I´ll fly back to Quito and then to the Galapagos!

Here we´re hoping to take a train ride down the "devil´s nostril".

Volcano erruption!

Puma!

The town was just invaded by a wild Puma!

Hopefully he´s now off to the local zoo, but it´s been an entertaining morning for everyone.

Quad Biking!

Went quad biking yesterday. Absolutely fantastic! I´ll add some photos here and a bit more prose later.



Got pretty far up the mountain, no views of the volcano as it was a little cloudy, but good views of the town.



There´s been a few recent erruptions and we came accross a pretty wild mud flow. The noise was incredible.