Ciclopaseo

Each Sunday, Quito closes down the main road and opens it up to bikers, creating an epic 30 km bike path through the city called Ciclopaseo. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people take to the streets on bikes. This week, a bunch of the teachers at my school decided to go together, starting in the North and working our way South. We rented bikes for about 13 bucks a person and we were off!

 The group standing around Old Town-best part of the ride

I had trouble with some of the hills and ended up walking my bike up quite a few of them, but overall, it was a blast and I survived relatively unscathed. We ate lunch in the south end of town at a huge mall, and then split into two groups to head back to the north. Half of us (the wimps) loaded our bikes in a truck and rode back up north in style, the other half (the hulks) rode their bikes back up to the north end of town.

 Taking a break in South Quito

Roomie and I before the last stretch