August 16th,6.15 am - Milan Airport. 100 Kg luggage: will our bikes make their way safe and sound to Quito ??? Fingers crossed....
Smile. You have just been upgraded to First Class on a 12-hour flight to Quito, AWESOME !
Approaching Quito airport at 2850 mt in the middle of the Andes
YEAAAAAAAHHHH !!!!!!!!! Bikes made it ...
... well we still had to work a bit on our bikes in the hotel room!
August 17th, after getting some sleep we decided to discover the old town of Quito and get used to high altitude by hiking at 4000mt on a peak overviewing the city
Propaganda of the "assemblea constituiente"
August 18th-19th, resting is not for us! let´s start biking on a couple of vulcanos in the next 2 days.
Cotopaxi, 5580 mt
Summit of Cotopaxi... have you ever tried to walk at 4600 mt? first time for Rodolfo, he almost fainted
watching the summit, climbing to the top? uhm next time...
meditating or just posing?
sleeping at 4000mt with 5 degrees indoor next to Quilotoa vulcano
Caldera Quilotoa, we woke up at 5am to take these pictures
Micetto Andino affamato
OK ! LET'S GOOOOOO ! IT'S AAAAWESOME DUDE !!!!!!
Andrea loves taking pictures with flowers in the forefront...
Biking south of Loja at 3000mt through desert mountains.
... still desert mounains, they seemed to be never ending
... uhm 5.00pm, 1 hour of daylight left and still 20km uphill to climb. Almost desperate figuring out what to do
still desperate!
Chulucayo willage between Loja and Macara, ready to start again
Crossing the peruvian border
