Viewing Airplanes from Above

I only have a few minutes to fire this off. First, just so you know the last post was made by me and not Laura...so the comment about knowing how the Incan statue with the huge penis felt should make a lot more sense...I hope.

Anyway, yesterday was our best day by far. We woke up and took a taxi to the ¨Teleferico¨ which is a huge gondola thing that they have that takes you up to 4,300 meters. That is 14,100 we later found out. The view was incredible. At the top we hiked for about 2 hours up to the base of a mountain peak with amazing scenery of wildflowers, birds, etc along the way. You will see the pictures...simply incredible. That will probably be the highest that we will ever be on Earth. We were both exhausted from the altitude until 30 minutes into our hike when a 80 year old man with a cane PASSED us on the trail...then we picked up the pace a little.

Ended the day with a great meal with three of our hostal-mates from England and Austrailia. Great people, good times. Now we are headed to Otavalo which is 2 hours north and has a famous open-air market on Saturday (supposedly the largest in South America)! We will be in touch soon!