Distance Cycled: 49km
Total Cycled to date: 325km
Today was up, up and more up as you can see from the groovy garmin graph on the right. Very hard work considering I am carrying ~100kg with every pedal and Will about 150kg. So please forgive us when exhausted at 40km and rather behind schedule for the day, a lovely man in a pick-up pulled over and insisted on driving us to the next town. Will sat in the back clutching onto the bikes and I was in the cabin trying out my best spanish - conversation ranged from Why weren't my legs cold, to the state of Ecuadorian infrastructure and marriage demographics of London (GCSE didn't prepare me for this)! But thankyou Juan - our Wednesday Angel.
Dropped off in Tombe, we had a mere 10kms to get to our destination of Ingapirca, home to supposedly the bes
t Inca ruins in Ecaudor. My, my was that last 10kms a killer! Against the clock of darkness, we were up and down rubble roads, dreading the wiggly arrow sign indicating a very bendy descent to cross a river valley followed by a steep climb - unfortunately there were many and sunset hit before the town did. Worse still on arrival, we realised our hostal was out of town...just 2 km...the standard answer in Ecuador whenever we asked Es lejos de aqui?
t Inca ruins in Ecaudor. My, my was that last 10kms a killer! Against the clock of darkness, we were up and down rubble roads, dreading the wiggly arrow sign indicating a very bendy descent to cross a river valley followed by a steep climb - unfortunately there were many and sunset hit before the town did. Worse still on arrival, we realised our hostal was out of town...just 2 km...the standard answer in Ecuador whenever we asked Es lejos de aqui? The hostel quite rightly ripped us off on arrival as they could see we had no choice but they did serve a very nice dinner in front of a log fire.
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