The cable car impresses journalist

TESTIMONY. “One gets the feeling that you are traveling by plane: you plugged your ears, see the city of Quito where a miniature model, the view is spectacular,” says Paul Monzón after coverage for the Blog Zone by renowned Spanish site periodistadigital . com
I have to board a plane in a couple of hours, but I can not go to Quito without raising the world’s highest cable car. Flight attendants Alameda Real Hotel in the capital of Ecuador, I have the experience is unforgettable. So here goes, in a hurry. And it’s not every day you can experience up and down to 4,050 meters above sea level.
Arrived in time to catch a seat in one of the booths up and down daily 2.5 km suspended on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano, reaching the top of Cruz Loma, a magical place by vegetation, and more than that: the panoramic views offered to tourists.
Cruz Loma is an active volcano located in the western cordillera of the Andes beneath which lies the city of Quito. Is in turn a long mountain chain over 40 km long reaching its highest peak, that of Guagua Pichincha, at 4,737 meters altitude.
“The people of Quito have taken seriously their tourist attraction”
DESD cable car you can see the Guagua Pichincha, above, the Rucu Pichincha (4698 m), El Padre Encantado (4,570 m) located between the Guagua Pichincha and Rucu, the Cundur Huachana (4273 mt), which means nest of condors ?.
In the cabin, with seating for six people, ascend to the top of the mountain along with two French girls and a couple of Guayaquil found travel honeymoon. The ascent is my slow but comfortable.
As we walk along a mile and the height is more perceptible, one gets the feeling that you are traveling by plane. And it happens the same thing: you ears plugged, and more, see the city of Quito where a miniature model. It’s like being suspended in the air, but with the certainty that you will not fall.
It’s been like ten minutes or so when we reached the mountaintop. Anyone would think it’s only a mountain, but no. The Quito is taken seriously as a tourist attraction and it will have added a shopping center in which there is no shortage cafes, bars, clubs and large spaces for cultural and ecotourism activity, even have a mini amusement park.
“From the viewpoint of the panoramic views are spectacular”
One of the peculiarities of the summit is that it has a coffee shop called roasting, which is actually a franchise establecimienos chain that owns the Colombian Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya. Has been open since a couple of months and is one of the attractions.
To 4,050 meters and from the viewpoint of the panoramic city views are spectacular and not to mention the surrounding valleys and the “Avenue of Volcanoes” and its impressive glaciers.
The height can be felt and even altitude sickness as I passed, it does not allows us to move as we wish. Not for nothing at all over the top you can read signs that advise us not to run and if you suffer from heart disease have to be careful. Therefore also have its top dsposición a hospital to visitors.
It’s getting late and got an hour and a half to split the plane that will take me to Guayaquil. I go out and fired into the city. Male!, And it should now be back in the same cabin. The descent makes me forever. And more: this time I do it alone.
“The experience is worth it worthwhile”
I love the photos among which are those that illustrate this post. For a moment I feel as dizzy as to move from side to side of the cabin have caused it to swing too. Gradually, as we go down I can watch the planes land at the airport in Quito. And it is located in the heart of the city!.
After ten or twelve minutes of descent that made me as eternal, but exciting, finally arrived at the foot of the mountain. I take a direct taxi to the Hotel Real Alameda and will fly to the airport. Once on the plane, and 30 thousand feet, I have the impression that in another cable car was similar. The experience is well worth it. “