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| Dispatch 5 - Ambato
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Leaving Macas Grande we return to Saquisili. What took a couple
hours the day before took about twenty minutes in reverse. After
Saquisili we rejoined the Pan Americana highway. Several times the
roadside turned from rural to urban and back again. The biggest and
busiest town in route is Latacunga. But the town that is most
memorable is San Miguel de Salcedo, the ice cream capitol of
Ecuador. It seems to be a national tradition to stop for ice cream
in San Miguel de Salcedo when you are traveling the Pan Americana. So
San Miguel de Salcedo had more ice cream shops per capita than any town I
have seen. We obliged the tradition.
Ambato doesn't have the high rises or the high end economy that Quito has but is is a good size city with what looked to be a near complete offering of goods and services. It is part of the urbanization of the Ecuadorian population. The city is sprawling and spreading to further hills and valleys. |
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