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About 2 hour drive from Loja to the east in the Amazon forest lies a small and tranquil town called Zamora. Getting there from Vilcabamba in our old Land Cruiser was quite a trip, not because it is far in kilometers but because the road is so bad and so twisty



About 2 hour drive from Loja to the east in the Amazon forest lies a small and tranquil town called Zamora. Getting there from Vilcabamba in our old Land Cruiser was quite a trip, not because it is far in kilometers but because the road is so bad and so twisty. You have to climb for half an hour from Loja and then go all the way down again. At the time of this writing (July 2010) they are rebuilding the road with concrete just like the road to Cuenca but it will take some time before it is finished. In the mean time, watch the potholes. The last few kilometers are particularly hard because they only allow the traffic one way at a time over a long distance and we had have to wait half an hour each way. This is all part of the Ecuadorian experience :-)

Parts of the road a really scenic. We particularly enjoyed the big cascade located on the right side of the road approximately an hour drive from Loja.


Once you get past Loja and drive downhill, as your altitude diminishes, the temperature rises significantly and everything becomes so lush and green. It feels like another world.


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