Click here for images of Quito. Day 3 Van ride to Pululahua mountain crater, the largest in South America, full of trees, villages and scruffy dogs. Drive north to the town of Otavalo, site of famous Saturday market. We do the Otavalo market, or rather it does us. Lots of amazing pictures, masks, rugs, jewelry, gringos and some very nice hats.
Much money is spent.
Our first real hike. Imbabura is mostly grass with a steep rock finish in the clouds. We learn that when Edgar says 'it is easy, only steep at the end', he means it, especially the second part. Of course, he says this about all the mountains we climb, except Chimborazo, which is steep all the time. Return to Otavalo for New Year's.