solves On Sunday, the Couchsurfing meeting up slowly. Christiano (Ecuador) and Melanie (France) take the other, Miguel (USA), Boris (France) and me (Germany), with the car on Ecuador's highest mountain, the volcano retired Chimborazo (6310m). Previously, we have breakfast in a cafe in which I was already running on Friday. I eat chicken and caramel cake in puff pastry.
Unaware of the way we cross through the area, pass a place where people concentrate in colorful traditional robes and fruit stands. We pass a boy with a bicycle. On his shoulders back, a boy, in turn, is shouldering three brand new broom. It goes past small pig farms, factories and dust Wäschleinen. From 4000m, the vegetation opens into a lunar landscape. It's snowing, and we hear ripped off from Dub Christianos Ipod, he's connected to his car speakers, because it constantly with permanently installed sound system the car would be broken. Once was standing with a rapid fire pistol while smear. Especially in Quito, where he lives with Melanie, are accumulating reports of attacks.
At Refugio I (4800m), we get out and run up through red mist, damp sand. Memorials to climbers along the way. Including a table, reminiscent of Christianos stepfather. Fifteen years ago he was the victim of an avalanche. In 2007 at age 87 will receive an amount which is not. The aluminum plates along the way are from the roof of the refugio II, the wind has carried them down here.
We are there, 5000m above sea level, improved my altitude record again. In Refugio II's bunk beds, a large wood stove, mushroom soup and coca tea (together for $ 2). A poster welcomes the South American Befreungshelden Simon Bolivar. Stickers on the windows of institutions that have been there, "sponsors of the mountain rescue services Carinthia," the magazine "The home seeker," "Wild East Adventure Travel". The landlord will repair the lock of the room with a large kitchen knife. Our lodge will stay sonicated with "Sweet Child of Mine" (Guns 'n' Roses) and "You Give Love A Bad Name" (Bon Jovi). Bad taste knows no bounds upwards. Based on the movie last night, the words "Quien es tu papi?" the popular consciousness. He can somehow always apply, for example, if one spills the soup. Even Christiano laugh. Solo Chimborazo, we have not seen the peak I know them only from the Internet .
Back in Riobamba I say goodbye to the other and climb starved a bus that brings me after all, even in the small town Alausi. I eat what the dealers have to offer on the bus: apricot from a small bag and an appetizing mixture of whole grain bread and honey. While driving, running a song I've heard at least fifty times, and in which it häuptsächlich to "Corazon" (heart) is. Where "Corazon" occurs in every Ecuadorean song. And if not "Corazon", then at least "Sentimentos.
is the restaurant "El Cisne" ("The Swan") in Alausi I placed a menu that would have previously taken place without communication: soup with potatoes, cheese and green leaves, chicken leg with rice. This I order juice and get some kind of cough syrup warm with raspberry flavor. The whole thing for $ 2.25. Add $ 5 bill can not publish the waiter, the daily drama that occurs, but otherwise only from $ 10 notes. The waiter takes my coins worth just under $ 2, said, "unimportant", and I am grateful. At night, a local brass band playing in the dim lantern light from the main road.
plaque at Chimbarazo. 
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