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EP1 Title: "I Told You Less Martinis And More Cardio."
Chateau d If:
I patched together a map of the rough part of the journey to Hacienda Yanahurco.
Racers should have gone south from Quito to Machachi. Then they would have done well to follow the black dotted line to the hacienda.
I found the Hacienda using apskip's reference to the river by that name. The River of the Vicious Valley is a little east of the hacienda.
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georgiapeach:
Nice!
From Whirley...
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--- Quote ---they probably did drive themselves (out at least, in, I don't think so), there's only one road out, via a locked security gate, of the hacienda estate. it's a rough lava track and they'll have driven past the Yanahurco sign, it's pretty much like that for two hours and they'll go through Cotopaxi National Park to a town called Machachi then North up the Pan American Highway to Quito - if that's where they were flying from. It would be the nearest International Airport. I was riding along the road that day (it's complicated as we had two groups of tourists and I was escourting one group out whilst the others rode in, before coming back in via the road the following day) anyway, as we rode out there were 2 or 3 trucks driving steadily in convoy out. I don't know if they were contestants driving out or film crew. But yes, it's likely they'd drive out, and there's a check point to get out of the National Park before you get out to the town.
the ones taken up the hill are from a pretty little glass hut/viewing chalet, it's almost opposite volcanoes Cotopaxi and Quilindana - really great point to see the bulls and horses coming down the valley, and then into the corals.
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Chateau d If:
I finally got Hacienda Yanahurco in GE. Here is a tilted view to match one of the view photos
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puddin:
Thanks for the pictures and map Chateau :yess:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on February 15, 2007, 09:57:04 PM ---I don't have the resolution to figure out where the gas station is. The sign looks like "something commercial de Pichincha" I hope that refers to the province; if it refers to the city or Gagua Pichincha volcano, then JVJ are way too far west. Another possibility is that they misheard or misspoke: there's a hacienda yanaurcu that takes a right turn into cotopaxi province instead of a left turn to cotopaxi volcano.
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and good call on the sign and the spec on hacienda yanaurcu, Slowhatch :)
Chateau d If:
Here is the layout in GE with in non-tilt and North is up mode.
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