Hola!
For those who knows the movie, remember the fabulous landscape where Mister Kevin Costner is riding through? Well, I could do the same 2 days ago!!!! 
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I got the great opportunity to ride one more day with the 3 nice ladies I mentionned last time, Adrianne from Australia, Karin and Lotta from Sweden. And I must say, that was the most spectacular ride I’ve ever done!!! Thank you Sally once more!
My trip started on tuesday afternoon when I drove to Chilcabamba with the car, with all the equipment for the horses, their food, the private luggage from the people, and a few kilos fresh oat on the top of the land rover. The driving was, let’s say a bit adventurous… The roads here are not exactly what we call roads in Europe… But you can drive on them… And after a while, you get used to it, and it”s even great fun!
I arrived at Chilcabamba (which is just at the border from the Cotopaxi National Park) about half hour before the group came. They got a bit wet at the end of their day, but that didn’t seem to bother them much, they were all smiling and telling me how fascinating their day had been. I helped Cesar to take care of the horses, we fed them and then brought them to their night field. Later on we had a delicious dinner, nice chat and went to bed at a reasonable time.
The next morning Cesar, Santiago and I woke up with the sun, went to get the horses, fed them and prepared them for the day. After a great breakfast with fresh fruits, eggs, bread and a lot of coffee for me, we started our ride into the Cotopaxi National Park. The scenery was already fantastic in the morning, and it got better and better during the whole day!!! We had a fantastic view over all volcanoes around us, they were all covered with snow at the top, which gave them that very special touch. We saw one condor, and many many wild horses, amazing! I took I don’t know how many pictures, just couldn’t stop anymore. Anytime I thought ok, now have a “camera-break”, just 2 minutes later the nature offered us again such a spectacular view… I couldn’t resist… We did lots of cantering, or should I say galopping? We learned from Adrianne that these are 2 different things!!!! 
One is a bit slower, the other bit faster… One is a bit more controlled, the other a bit less… . With our definition, we would say we did many canterings, and a few (controlled!!!) gallopings! And that was just… waouh!!!! Cantering in such an amazing scenery… A dream that came true for me!!!
We rode back to the hacienda in the afternoon, all with happy faces and somehow still couldn’t believe what a day we’ve had…
After another great meal and a viewing of each others fotos, we went all to bed, tired but full of great sensations, hundreds of fantastic pictures in our head (and in our cameras…)…
Thank you Cesar and Santiago for the great guiding, and thank you Adrianne, Lotta and Karin for the great time I spent with you!!!
Hasta luego!
Sibylle
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