The week before Easter, we had a few days free from school, so we traveled south in the mountains to the area around Vilcabamba. It is advertised as a place to become younger, or live a very long time, so there are a lot of tourists, but we went for the scenery and hiking. It was a long bus ride(s), but the view through the mountains really was beautiful. We found a place outside of town with small cabins located near the start of many trails and enjoyed the nature. We were able to spend one full day hiking, on a horse trail through a lot of mud. We should have had waders! But, it was a really nice hike, and we ended up in a cloudforest, which we had heard of but never seen. Unfortunately, our camera batteries died right about then, so we don't have good pictures of it...
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| Seth relaxing and waiting for food in Vilcabamba |
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| Jen relaxing in the hammock in the cabin. |
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| The view from the hammock |
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| Seth recovering from a fall in the stream... |
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| Seth crossing the river. |
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| The final destination, and a glimpse at the cloudforest... | |
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This area has a lower elevation than where we live in Cañar, so we were able to experience much warmer weather, as well as large spiders around the cabin... but we are not including pictures of these:)
After a couple days around Vilcabamba, we spent a day in the city of Loja. Here we bought coffee beans and just generally relaxed before returning to Cuenca early (Resurrection) Sunday morning. We had beautiful views again on our early morning bus ride back to Cuenca, and attended a Spanish service in Cuenca before returning home to Cañar.
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