My previous experience of long distance bus travel in Ecuador wasn’t good. But this time it was a great journey. The route from Cuenca high in the Andes to Guayaquil on the pacific coast takes about 4 hours and gives views of spectacular scenery. First you rise high in the mountains and then, start to descend. At this point, looking down out of the bus window, you can see the clouds.
Eventually after half an hour of twisty downhill roads, you meet the clouds. It took twenty minutes to pass through, what is probably now best called fog. But when we emerged the Andes were gone, the land was flat and the vegetation had changed from sparse to tropical. The fog was now above us, and probably now best called clouds. You just don’t get bus journeys like that in Sheffield.
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42 people were killed in a bus crash out of Cuenca a few days ago, probably a very similar bus and route that I was on.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't even mentioned on the BBC Latin American News web-site. Presumably, as there were no gringos on it.