Alausí, Ecuador
- A ripening field of quinoa, ancient grain of the Incas, near Columbe
- San Pedro statue on a hill in Alausi
A heavily overcast sky hid the peaks we saw yesterday as we climbed out of Riobamba. We stopped at the first Spanish church in Ecuador, built in 1534, in Cajabamba. The traffic dropped considerably after the Panamericana highway split, and we had a nice gradual downhill past red and yellow fields of quinoa, on a freshly paved road. After a rather barren high valley of pine trees, we descended to the colonial town of Aluasi, with a statue of San Pedro standing atop a hill.
- Entrance to a 475 year-old church in Cajabamba
