Dangerous Roads

Someone emailed me a series of pictures of the "world's most dangerous road" and it reminded me so much of riding the bus in Ecuador, that I thought I would share them here. Most of the pictures in the slide show were taken in Bolivia, but some are from Ecuador.

We would get up at 4 or 5 am and be down at the bus station in Quito before dawn. The long ride would end sometime in the early evening hours in Shellmera where we would often spend the night before flying into the jungle via the small MAF plane.

Sometimes the ride was really scary, sometimes it was just boring and long. Always there was the amazingly beautiful scenery.