Saturday June 7, 2008 (Day#19)
7 hours. 38 km.
Our friends Oswaldo Kopel and Diego Collar arrived with trailer and horses to meet us and accompany us to the Hacienda Santa Marta de Totorillas. We crossed two mountain chain all of yellowish clay. We could observe nice small and large forests, but low agriculture productivity. This makes me think that everything should be reforested, and subsidies should be implemented for this purpose. Farmes should be relocated so 20 year from now we could have a great wood production and jobs in the area.
Amazing views closer to the Cuenca valley. Riding through the royal trails (Incas) brought me memories of my childhood riding through the Inca trail that was in my Hacienda , this trail used to conect with El Cuzco during Inca times. Growing up that was our favorite trail ride.
We could see GIma in the province of Loja. This was our goal fro Monday. We went downwards on a beautiful forest then entered to the Hacienda’s pastures. We arrived at 4 pm at beautiful Hacienda Tortorillas. We bath the horses and give them some Vitamin B and buta. Fed them and left them grazing in such green and pastures to our powerful and strong companions.
Our horses resting and eating.
New horse (Jorge Condo), getting shoes for the first time.
