Exploring

On Thursday we took the volunteers on a field trip to Ingapirca. We pulled over to take a couple of photos.

A couple of animals slowed down our travels...

so Lee and I decided to get out of the car and walk with them.

but that still didn't make them move much quicker.

We finally arrived to Ingapirca, the largest well-preserved Incan ruins in Ecuador.

Negro and Danika finishing up lunch. Negro accompanies us on all our field trips.




Negro and Lee


Lee trying on a mask at the little tourist shops.

Lee snapped this photo out the window of the car as we left Incapirca and headed to the city of Biblian.

Exploring continued...

After visiting the ruins we head south for about an hour (back along the same route) to the city of Biblián to visit the Iglesia de Biblián, also called the Church in the Rock. This church is a church that is built into a huge rock on the mountainside and is quite fascinating to see and explore. Some of the church’s walls are pure, raw rock—the church was just built around it! We climbed the stairs up to the top of the mountain where we could see the cities of Biblián and Azogues.

The view of Azogues

This view of Biblián

Below Lee is looking for the best foot holds to support his climb.

I Can Fly!

Yesterday we went on a field trip with the volunteers to a zip-lining course called Cuenca Canopy. It was incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0I_4P5GSNs

July 1st, trip to Ingapirca