sunrises, landscapes, and sunsets on the ecuator

The final post in a short series of photos from Ecuador. The original intentions was to leave them without captions, and let the photos stand alone, but the people, including me, hate caption-less photos.

So here is a miscellaneous smattering of scenery shots from Ecuador in 2010.

Near the end (the top) of the Guamote-Macas road - we started in the jungle and drove to the high mountains.

A Puya, a giant bromeliad, in the paramo near our field camp, called Rumi Loma.

J takes in the afternoon sun.

At the end of my very first trip up to Rumi Loma, a fence lit by the headlights.

Sunsets at Rumi Loma were always something.

The Valley at the base of El Altar, a volcano outside of Rio Bamba.

Sunrise. I began to drag myself out of bed for it, drinking coffee during it. It was a level of virtuousness that I may never achieve again.

This photo, and the next, are at either end of the panorama that comes third.

N watches the arrival of a thunderstorm.

The alpacas being hearded back into the corral (to protect them from pumas during the night) at La Libertad.

More of La Libertad, looking over at the village of Colepato.

A private vacation, I went to Cuyabeno at the end of the second program. This is pirana fishing (see the raw meet on the gunwale at right?). We didn't get any.