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 Dispatch 8 - Playa Rico
    Ironically, this area has some of the most beautiful scenery in Ecuador -- a generally very scenic country -- but I have very few pictures, which may be connected to the difficulty of the cycling. Rio Apuela valley
  Sugar cane being crushed into juice Sugar cane being crushed into juice. Sugar cane being crushed into juice
boiling sugar cane juice down to blocks of brown sugar Rural factory boiling sugar cane juice down to blocks of brown sugar. boiling sugar cane juice down to blocks of brown sugar
  Young girls with their dolls Left: A couple young girls in a village with their dolls.

Right: A family in a village.

 A family in a village
    Rio Guayllabamba, at 800 meters above sea level, some 60 kilometers by road and 1000 meters lower vertically than Apuela. Rio Guayllabamba
 

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