Wednesday June 11, 2008 (Day# 22)
50 km in a long day of 11 hours. With us, is Holguer a local guy that works in the Oriente, he knows the roads and trails of the area. Some of this trails are used ever september for the Cisne Virgin procession.
We rode down towards the Udushapa River, the horses refreshed themselves and we were very tempted to jump in the water, but we had to keep going. We went up the rocky hills, very difficult for the horses, but at least the rocks were not slippery.
We arrive to a place called Loma La Punta from where we can see Ona at 500 mts below us. It tooks an hour to figure out the way down, and getting in contact with another guide (Augusto) who will takes to Saraguro. We we got to the paramo we could see Saraguro. Then at 7:30 pm and 2 hours riding from Saraguro, the support truck had to pick me up because I’ve been ill to my stomach all day and I can’t handle it anymore. The truck takes me to Achic Wasi hostal were I teh rest of the group meets me 2 hours later. Plenty of medicines, including oregano water helped me recover for teh next day.
Rio Leon
Loja’s mountain chain
