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I'm back in the sticky Quito cut (the cars, buses and Co behind it permits the most extreme black clouds of exhaust ausm that stop you must first 5 minutes, the air and see you are doing for a short time and not as much). Last week I had the great luck that is driving them to a work camp in Cayambe. One week to collect garbage in a canyon and aufplanzen the area with 2,000 trees and that everything for the Condor, who lived in the area again and will aufgepeppelt. In a small village called Guachala we then slept in a little "Hostel" and were supplied with plenty of delicious food. Typical of the region because there are Biscoches, homemade keksartige parts, with in-house "Journal of cheese, or with a kind of caramel cream. Amazing and then a freshly squeezed pineapple, blackberry, passion fruit .... melon juice. Delicious.
At least, we are after an exciting bus ride with all the luggage, in this village, located right on the equator, arrived. The first part, we had to stand for an hour and that until we came to the bus station. 2 1 / 2 hours for about $ 1.50. After breakfast, we went immediately to work, back to the back of a jeep we went over stock and stone gebraust. But before you go to Muelleinsammeln, we're going to be like a hacienda and surrounded by thousands of dogs and 3 tame deer are also to come and have us licked from top to bottom. Then we run into a mountain river, where we will collect next week in the morning thousands of sacks Muell.
a shit work, one does not believe what people throw away everything here, sometimes you can weggraben three layers of dirt and it's still plastic underneath. One seems almost that the mountains are easily grown here because of all the garbage. Well, at least the view is awesome. You can see all the time the Cayambe, which is the third highest volcano in Ecuador. In the afternoon we make smaller and smaller excursions by jeep. A small school, located at the "bottom" of the world we visit and be received so warmly. Children are Shy total, but dare but every now and then throw us brief glimpses. Some people come here to us and hug us, shake us to the hands or talking wildly forward to that but rather quite the Frechen. We also have the luck that we are allowed to look in the classroom, which is great fun and something that we "fear" being our teacher does.
We also learn Virginia's (head of our organization, which is rather how such a mom, she calls us "to know love "...) shaman friend Pablo, who are on the trail of the" always "children", will show Mitad del Mundo "a Condor, his powers only work not so today . He apologized the whole time for that.
Another attempt to see a Condor works out, not so. After 3 hours jeep, you go back home because the Hacienda has closed with the Condor just as we arrived. This was so the first experience with the Ecuadorian planning style =)! This was the ride super crazy, exciting, freezing cold and sometimes a little dangerous. You have to know that here the cars here overtake a bus for two next to each other or truck.
came at the weekend then the rest of the volunteers do to us and Saturday was so much of a tourist-day. First, we went on a bus for 11 people, we were 16, again to start the Hacienda an attempt to once again visit the Condor. Uuuund it even worked. Juhuuu, a huge part and a little disgusting, especially the total approached us to come close. It must be mentioned, however, that they are reared in a large outdoor enclosure and be released until later.
Next we travel to Ibarra, lick the capital of Imbabura, where we ice that is still in production just like 300 years ago. And that is fetched from the volcanoes and glaciers is then a copper bowl floating in the ice for a fresh will angeruehrt. Very tasty. I had blackberry, some weird fruit called Toxa and yet another unknown for me. Extremely interesting. All 16 or 17 back on the bus and on to Otavalo, a city with the famous cattle and Indigenamarkt. Unfortunately, it was already too late to see the Kuhmarkt, but it's still there to see all sorts of other things. Everyone buys in to zip's, bags, hammocks, jewelry ....! Motley Colors far and wide, fresh coconut milk, peanut paste, sweet Maismehlbaellchen, for me the heaven on earth =)!
After an hour ago, we have to go but back, so she goes to a nearby lagoon. The Laguna Cuicocha. With a boat, we sail around the islands and can see all the little bubbles. The CO2 was that high up from the still active volcano Cuicocha, from the soil under the lake!
The last goal we are heading to the city Cuicocha, known for its leather goods. Everywhere leather, leather and leather again! It's already smells in the streets.
On Sunday, the big tree planting. The whole village comes together, it is called here "Minga" and planted about 1,000 trees along the river, eigentlcih it should be 2000, not only was the rest somehow planted ready, the plants need the people here even then. With pick, shovel and a sack full of small trees, we make our way. The bags are damn hard and in groups of four people will become of us. I am in a group of three Ecuadorians, who just wild everywhere purely cut a hole, it was under the bush or in a total stony ground. The German small group talk nice to the spacing rules, which they have made us. Between each existing or new tree 4 meters Distance. For us it is more a matter of centimeters! Ecuadorian styles halt =)!
back to Quito, starts so again a normal life here, except that I now have four hours in the early course and until Friday. On Saturday in the morning it's off at last for all of us in our cities. Soon there is to say for me, "Buenos días Puyo Quito y adios!
on into the great adventure!
