El Porvenir

Starting in Quito, we decided to follow the wise advice of a French girl we met in Quito to travel in some hacienda and do some horse riding!

We had just met those 2 canadians in the backpacker and we met francis, the Bavarian we first met in Panama. The 5 of us were therefore ready for new adventure and we traveled in an early morning with all of our bags to this place (as we intented to go to Baños afterward).

Just to go to the train station was a pain, many bus routes, few information and with all of our bags, it was already hard enough. It just started to be annoying when I got picked-pocket and lost my credit card (BUMMER!). And when we got to the train station, we saw this:

It was then out of question to take a bus, so we got into this car/truck for a good 3 hours of dirty and bumpy roads (hoooo, we love those!). That was already some emotions we had for this day, and when we get there, we were welcomed with a nice grog and some cheesy things. Everything was so delicious, and the place was soooo comfy. We felt immediatly at home! But we had to ride our horses and we got our costumes.

Here we are!

On the road

Francis before the fall

The horses were following each other as their lives depended on it... Therefore we struggled to get them out of the path (you know... for fun!). The fun came later with some heavy hail. All surrender by storms and lightnings, the horses were nervous when we heard: "no, no, no, no, nooooooooooo".

The horse of Francis was bolting. To see the tall German on a little horse was funny, but to see him charge into the wild only stupor was upon us (ok, it was hilarious afteward). The fall had a dull thud and a scream came right after: "I'm alright!".

Realisticaly, he could have hurt himself badly, but we already had our bit of unluck for the day. Everything went perfectly this day, the soaked clothes and backpack, the nice pictures, the hot and delicious meal which was waiting for us, and the warm goodbye to the Julia and Claire...

That was a nice ride!