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had a few days off from the school so thought i´d do a bit of travelling! did the riobamba train to la nariz del diablo this morning which is a tourist train where everyone sits on the roof. la nariz del diablo is a steep solid bit of rock so when they were building the track they designed a series of switchbacks to get around it. therefore at that section of the track the train goes forwards, then backwards in order to ascend the 1000m to alusi. a couple of times the train actually derailed and it always took ages to sort out!
on the bus on the way to riobamba i was sitting next to an old lady who offered me sugarcane. i should have accepted as i still haven´t tried it but i thought it was some dodgy sort of parsnip so didn´t! the woman insisted on sitting next to me the whole 5 hours to ambato even though we could each have had double seats as there were only 10 people on the bus!
next stop, banos!
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