chimborazooo
all right sarah what are we doing today we are we are going biking on chimborazo a volcano i'm so
excited i'm so pumped but look at this mess i'll bring all the different options because it's snow
it's rain or sunny or i don't know everything right now kind of looks like low-lying clouds
even when it's cloudy here i always put sunscreen on righty ready to go ready to rock
and to roll on bikes down the mountain i hope i'm not rolling down the mountain by the end of this
that'll be a bad day where the bikes will be rolling i'll be rolling on wheels
okay as long as i'm not because yeah that's right but we'll see here
cool man that's awesome
so we just got picked up by our guy dimitri and we're on our way to chimborazo and they
know the way to my heart because they brought us tea and oreos that's perfect
traffic is crazy today
first time
you guys just live here
we made it to the refuge at chimborazo and even though you can't really tell you'll just have
to believe us we're at 4 800 meters right now we started in riobamba at 2700 meters then we
went up drove all the way to 4800 meters now we're going to do a little hike to 5200 meters
there's supposed to be a little lake and then we're going to bike all the way down to 3000
meters that's right and to give you a little bit of reference chimborazo is at about 60
268 meters so very tight at the very top so we're not going to the very top today because
it's already the air is way too thin here yeah you can already feel the altitude that's for sure and
if you watch our caja's video we don't do great with altitude so yeah it's awesome though but
the really cool thing about chimborazo is not only is it the highest peak in ecuador so you
can go to the top but because it falls on the bulge of the equator it's actually the highest
point like closest to the sun in the whole world even closer than everest yeah it's about
200 meters closer to the sun than ever so that's what we had to put on sunscreen today because we
could easily get really burnt so this is pretty cool experience for sure yeah definitely so we're
gonna start a little bit of a hike up to i believe a lagoon yeah a little lake a little lake and uh
yeah we'll keep you updated hopefully we can see some view but it's not looking too promising
my brain does not love altitude whatsoever to be honest with all this fog it kind of looks like
we're on the moon actually the dirt is all kind of red too yeah totally it's very cool
very cool but kind of wish we could see the mountain hopefully it peaks there a little bit
crazy thing about hiking in ecuador is just you feel so out of shape but
never my muscles like my legs are totally fine any hike we do
it's like you can barely walk because you're so out of breath and your brain is like
oh altitude it's a crazy crazy feeling for sure the key is to go very very slow right sar
our first snow of ecuador
yes i'm doing this hey
we see the mountains it looks so nice i want the whole thing to clear that's so
beautiful i'm gonna cover in like in one yeah we're gonna lose it wow that is so magical this
is basically the story of our hike now chimborazo is that it just it kind of comes in and out
come on clear up clear up for us come on you can do it
oh baby come on that's beautiful a little bit clearer please
surviving sar oh barely
making it though the sun is nice
oh i've forgotten all about the altitude it is so beautiful right now look at this we finally
have like a nice view like we said it keeps kind of popping in and out but oh my goodness
it's incredible it's magnificent it's incredible i love it i love it so much
all right sar you made it that was not super easy but no it's so beautiful up here so apparently
you can walk a little bit further about 200 meters further to a little lagoon and that's the highest
point you can walk to without a guide in like proper gear like snow gear right so but we're not
going to go there because the view already here is beautiful we want to get mountain biking yeah
this is so amazing it's amazing it's so cool to just be like just sitting at the bottom of this
volcano or like just like right underneath it it's amazing so cool like this on its own was worth the
whole tour totally this is not even really the main focus of the tutorial definitely if you do
come up to chimborazo definitely attempt to hike it take your time yeah like we have like about
an hour and a half and like it took us like i don't know half an hour really to get up here
so we walked really slow totally so definitely worth it i think we'll spend a little bit more
time up here and then we'll go back down for our mountain bike so excited on to the next thing
hey better to be safe and than speedy your mustache sticking out is so funny
worth the space in my bag for sure look at that ready to rock all right so we're ready to get
on our mountain biking trip and uh yeah we're all geared up it's gonna be rain yeah starting
to rain i can't really see anything yet but uh yeah so it's about eight kilometers down to the
first like gate for the national park and then we go another 25 kilometers down the main road
so hopefully we get some views later on that's right
quick stop in the rain
oh
how you doing so great oh it's so much fun this is way too cool
nice work that was so awesome it's beautiful oh amazing did not look at the end ever no so fun
that was even more fun than expected to be to be honest gonna have very sore wrists very sore knees
but it's so fun that's crazy oh we made it it was so cool that has got to be like one of the coolest
top definitely top bike rides i've ever done well i would say top things with ecuador yeah for sure
it was so cool because you start on top of the snowy mountain and then you go through all these
different biomes and everyone has different colors and different plants and different animals and it
was just crazy i don't i seriously don't remember that being that beautiful when we drove up this
morning i think my favorite part is like kind of closer to the bottom once it starts to be more
like like classic andean farmland and it's just so cool like there's so much all these communities
oh so beautiful very beautiful definitely do that again highly recommend doing this definitely come
with julio verne travel absolutely they're really awesome now we are going to get some
lunch here and uh yeah hungry hungry for sure so the tour includes lunch so we got some juice
some sort of soup chicken sauce potatoes veggies rice and popcorn but mine's already gone so
classic i love popcorn
how are we feeling
we did not sleep very much last night yeah we also just biked down a mountain so that's probably
right no yeah that's i'm tired i can't think you forget about it already yeah yeah
all right so that concludes our day that was crazy day that was about seven hours from getting picked
up at our airbnb to dropped off back at our airbnb just wild so so fun totally worth it
like definitely definitely go to chimborazo if you're in riobamba or in the area it's totally
worth it you can do that hike that we did this morning and the bike ride was also yeah but if
you don't like biking too you're there's tours or taxis it'll just take you all the way to the top
go see the views yeah it's well worth it for sure yeah so we want to say thanks again to julio verne
travel for kind of just hooking us up with this uh tour today it was just super fun very great
guide as well dimitri was very informative he was telling us all about the communities going up
to the to the mountain as well so it's like it's it's it's just a great experience overall
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are the sheep wearing masks
how's your day going sarah it's so great now i love this so beautiful there's all these
graves here or like memorial plaques it's not a good sign eric i hope we don't join them
is that a bad joke what do you think sarah are we gonna make it or are we gonna become one of these
yeah almost became one of those plaques i looked at the bird and then almost lost it don't look
the birds the view behind you is very nice right now holy cow that's nice i can't i can't whip my
head around or i'll probably faint so let me just stand up like an old lady slowly turn around hey