Right: Throughout Ecuador there are many shrines where people come to pray for a sick person or to give thanks for health and prosperity.
Right: There are numerous limestone quarries along the rail-trail and in the vicinity.
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Left: The Pan-American highway winds its
way through the Avenue of the Volcanoes from one end of Ecuador to the other. Right: Throughout Ecuador there are many shrines where people come to pray for a sick person or to give thanks for health and prosperity. |
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The old railroad corridor extends from Quito to Ibarra. There are sections around Cayambe that are good for cycling. Besides always being a gentle grade it cuts through hills, winds around valleys, and passes though villages. |
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Left: Most intriguing of the features
on the old railroad are the tunnels. They are cool and bone dry inside. Right: There are numerous limestone quarries along the rail-trail and in the vicinity. |
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Hacienda Guachala is said to be the oldest hacienda in Ecuador. Like most hacienda its current land area is a fraction of it current size. And like many Ecuadorian haciendas, it is focusing more on cultivating money from tourism than the land. |
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The rooms and dining room that once housed and fed staff now renovated to serve tourist. |
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