Trip from Quito to Pindal

Last week we took an 11 hour drive to a little town close to the border of Peru.  We were looking at some schools where we might be able to do a project.  Here are some scenes along the way.  You can't see the volcano very clearly but this is Chimborazo, the highest in Ecuador.

We stopped at a restaurant along the way for breakfast.  This was the view looking up into the mountains.  Dad and I just had a banana we brought with us.  We are still leery about eating along the side of the road.

A home next to the restaurant where we stopped for lunch.

The hillsides that are farmed.

A cultivated hillside.

It had been raining so the rivers were pretty muddy looking. 

A juice vendor.

Some of the trees along the highway were so pretty.

Two very nice cement homes.

A home on stilts that you can't see.

We passed miles and miles of banana plantations.  If you check the stickers on your bananas they probably came from Ecuador!

More bananas covered in plastic bags to protect them from insects.

We also passed miles of sugar cane fields.

Some homes along the way. 

Coconuts for sale.