Active volcanos!!!
Our airplane back to Cuenca was quite delayed, and the screen that posted updates on the status of planes kept saying that ours had already taken off. I knew that all the 100 or so people in the terminal were all waiting for the same plane that we were, but I kept worrying anyway that we'd missed our plane. Especially because we were listening to my iPod, one earbud per person. It made me very happy that Maya enjoyed my selection of music as much as she seemed to! We ate yummy sandwiches and plaintain chips which were salty like potato chips from a little airport cafe called Le P'tit Cafe. Spelled just like that and a drawing of the Eiffel Tower as its logo. But as Maya pointed out, the only thing French about the place was the name. All the foods were basic sandwiches, Ecuador style.
Our flight was super exciting as Maya had a window seat and this was what we saw:
I'm pretty sure this is the volcano called Cotopaxi, which is 5897 meters high, and one of the top three highest active volcanos in the world. Cotopaxi means "neck of the moon" in native Quechua.
Next came what I'm pretty sure is Tungurahua, in the midst of spewing an ash plume. Pretty amazing! Unfortunately, this is the one that caused the evacuation of thousands of people in the summer of 2006, and I think a more recent evacuation too.
Our flight was super exciting as Maya had a window seat and this was what we saw:
I'm pretty sure this is the volcano called Cotopaxi, which is 5897 meters high, and one of the top three highest active volcanos in the world. Cotopaxi means "neck of the moon" in native Quechua.
Next came what I'm pretty sure is Tungurahua, in the midst of spewing an ash plume. Pretty amazing! Unfortunately, this is the one that caused the evacuation of thousands of people in the summer of 2006, and I think a more recent evacuation too.