Quito

Quito ( Ecuador )

"It is the demon spewing smoke." They say that in this manner received the arrival of the railroad in the early last century , these remote indigenous populations lost in the folds of the Andes. He was born the train called half the world and burst with his birdie on rails, with his old horn steam , to the amazement and fear of some isolated communities for which this machine could only be the embodiment of progress coming from afar, señoreándose between rivers , lakes and mountains .



It was not easy in this land of bad roads , as nicknamed by Ecuador in the colony. Between the Andes From the panoramic windows of the train much of what the German scientist Von Humboldt called " Avenue of the Volcanoes " , the inter-Andean corridor that winds through more than seventy parallel volcanoes (27 of them still active ) along unfolds 300 kilometers.