This morning the group finally met. There are eight of us. Five are from New York. Our guide is Pablo, he´s smokin´hot. He´s only our guide for the the hiking part of our trip. Our real guide, Feilipe, hurt his knee in a horse riding accident and will join the group when we head to the Galapagos.
We left the hotel at around 9am and headed to our final pit stop for the night, the Hacienda Pinsaqui. Along the way we stopped at the actual equator. It was strange to stand with my one foot in the nothern hemisphere and my left foot in the souther. I was surprised to learn there that ¨north¨actuall means ¨left¨and not UP as we traditionally think. We continued on to the Otavalo Market and to a little house in a ghetto where a native woman made us a pilla (or hand flute). Lunch was at an amazing Hacienda in the middle of I dont know where. I bravely ordered tree tomato juice. Acording to Pablo, the tree tomato is not related to the tomato but rather the potato Some people don´t believe him but I choose to think that Pablo would never lie to us. For dessert at dinner I even had tree tomato sorbet.
We´ve switched the daytime itinerary for days two and three so there was no hiking today but tomorrow we hike around a volcano. Pablo says there will be lots of orchids. I can´t wait.
HIGHLIGHT: I really enjoyed all the history of the country that Pablo shared with the group as we drove through the countryside.
We left the hotel at around 9am and headed to our final pit stop for the night, the Hacienda Pinsaqui. Along the way we stopped at the actual equator. It was strange to stand with my one foot in the nothern hemisphere and my left foot in the souther. I was surprised to learn there that ¨north¨actuall means ¨left¨and not UP as we traditionally think. We continued on to the Otavalo Market and to a little house in a ghetto where a native woman made us a pilla (or hand flute). Lunch was at an amazing Hacienda in the middle of I dont know where. I bravely ordered tree tomato juice. Acording to Pablo, the tree tomato is not related to the tomato but rather the potato Some people don´t believe him but I choose to think that Pablo would never lie to us. For dessert at dinner I even had tree tomato sorbet.
We´ve switched the daytime itinerary for days two and three so there was no hiking today but tomorrow we hike around a volcano. Pablo says there will be lots of orchids. I can´t wait.
HIGHLIGHT: I really enjoyed all the history of the country that Pablo shared with the group as we drove through the countryside.
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What?! Smokin' hot?! Did you really write that?
-Michele
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