S5🌎Ep17 🛵 Riding death roads of Ecuador makes me very happy, somehow

[@Desert2snowoffwego]

Beautiful scenery! I'm enjoying your riding there in Ecuador. And as far as the Universe goes-- I think it's just good old Adventure serendipity!

[@alyoka.travels]

Ecuador is full of beautiful landscapes to explore! 🤩 Love it so much! And, yeah, adventure serendipity seems to be a thing, might be connected to Karma and Universe 😄

[@MichaelKapsner]

Exploration mode ON! (for Aleona in wonderland). What gorgeous scenery and beautiful skies... It's fun to catch the mood of the day. Today seems best described by 'delight'.

[@alyoka.travels]

“Delight” is the one! 😁👌 from the very beginning to the very end of this wonderful ride 🥰

[@galinazamotina8740]

Привет, Алёнка! Какая интересная поездка сегодня! Горы, горы, туманы, водопады, многочисленные речки и мосты, пышная растительность, хороший проводник! 😊 Много новых ярких впечатлений тебе и удачи! ❤❤ ного новых

[@alyoka.travels]

Спасибо! Это была сказочная поездка, а сколько еще интересных дорог впереди ☺️💛

[@Manologuevara-mg5ib]

Nice Ride i hope you like ECUADOR in general the fun continuos 🌎🏍✌

[@alyoka.travels]

Ecuador is definitely growing on me! 🤩

[@АлексейБыстрицкий-ю2э]

Привет, Алёна! Сегодня был день не больших водопадов и густых туманов. Хотя это скорее облака накрывающие горы. Интересны и дороги по джунглям Амазонии. Впечатлений под завязку. Да и вдвоём с Дэном веселей, дороги знает. Удачи! 🥰🥰🥰

[@alyoka.travels]

Да-да, именно облака, мне кажется, что в некоторых регионах солнце вообще никогда не видят, как там люди живут?))

[@lhollybow]

Great roads to ride on. Always fun to fishtail on a slightly muddy track.

[@alyoka.travels]

As long as it's not next to a 100+ meters drop 🤣

[@creedm3040]

Awesome video! But oh those cliffs, yikes! Dan would be an amazing tour guide. He should really think about doing that. I would definitely ride with him. I love how you explain the conditions. Temperature, visions of the clouds. It makes the viewer more engaged on what's happening and be there in the moment. I enjoyed that very much.What an amazing place to ride! And those cute towns. Best!

[@alyoka.travels]

Thank you! I’m so happy you enjoyed the episode and the views. 🥰 Unfortunately there are a lot of things that camera can't capture (smells, temperature, and steepness are just a few), so I try my best to make up for the technology limitations ☺️

[@creedm3040]

@ Well the steepness comes through pretty good! You communicate the others very well! Best! ❤️

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

that was amazing. I would hate riding in the rain because I do not have nice gear to wear to keep dry and it would be too hot and miserable in south florida. thanks for the great ride. keep dry😁.

[@alyoka.travels]

Thank you! It's rainy season in the Andes now, I've been lucky so far to avoid heavy rain, fingers crossed this luck will follow me as I keep riding south 😄

[@mageprometheus]

Imagine if there were helmets like an eye, with a lid to wipe the visor and automatic cleaning. It wouldn't be kind to people who were afraid of Cyclops. 😀 I hate it when I get tense and it affects my breathing. I know it makes a drop more likely but all you can do is keep pushing through and send it. Funny enough, I don't get it on a dirt bike. Merry Christmas 💜

[@alyoka.travels]

Ohhhh I dream of a visor/goggles that could do that! 😄 Merry Christmas to you, too! 💛

[@houcinezarwal6797]

love your travels

[@alyoka.travels]

Thank you ☺️ I’m quite a big fan of them myself 😁

[@radovanradivojevic6997]

Дивна вожња, Аљона. Поздрав из Србије.

[@alyoka.travels]

Thank you! 💛

[@cerolimitesav1738]

La palabra mas dulce que escucho en sus videos es "wiiiiiii"" es porque todo está bien..!!!

[@alyoka.travels]

Gracias! La "wiiii" me sale natural, a veces sale tanto que tengo que eliminarla en la post-producción 🤣

[@RYwoodview]

God gives you what you most need, if you are paying attention. You do. But you know what else? If you had continued into Peru, you would be enjoying what you found there just as much.

[@alyoka.travels]

Maybe, probably, but that we would never know! I’m just super happy (and grateful to the universe) for the way it turned out! Meeting Dan and riding these roads with him is priceless 🤩

[@orhanbiyiklibykl3179]

🧿🧿👏👏👏👏👍

[@alyoka.travels]

💛

[@donalddesilets7640]

That was a great ride! Last evening I got on my computer and looked at Google maps to see where you were as I had no clue of that part of the world. It was really fun to see where you are riding 😊

[@alyoka.travels]

It's so cool that you’re following along and checking out the area on the map. 😊 My parents usually do that, sometimes even "ride around" with me using the street view ☺️

[@donalddesilets7640]

@ that’s great 😊

[@novreis1952]

Quite beautiful roads. A perfect day with exception of 100 meters😂 About the Universe... we can call it several names. I have one history/coincidence that, if you were me, definitely you would call it Universe. I needed several lines to tell it but it was quite special (nothing spiritual or strange, just a tremendous coincidence)😊

[@alyoka.travels]

I love those stories, please tell it when you have time ☺️ Half of my life (if not all of it) is made of those "tremendous coincidences". In Christianity it's known as "the ways of God are strange", definitely applies to my life!

[@novreis1952]

@alyoka.travels , ok, I will do it first in a text editor, and put it here after. As it is in English, it will take more time 😊 I will begin now😉

[@alyoka.travels]

Wuiiiii!

[@novreis1952]

Aleona, here I am my capacity to be short is diminishing, sorry🤗) It starts with a very hot day in Lisbon. Perhaps you don’t know but the best beaches around Lisbon are in the southern region of Tagus River. Me, my wife and my two-years-old daughter, prepared to go to one of those beaches, about 20 kms far. To reach it, we must cross the “25 April Bridge” (the one that is similar to San Francisco iconic bridge). When we reached the roundabout that gains access to the bridge, the traffic was terrible. As I am not a patient guy😊, I remembered that my two favorite soccer teams were playing in Torres Novas, a village where I had been put as punishment (I was too much for my mom😥 with 10 sons and daughters), to study in an internship college. So, 3 in one (two favorite teams and my favorite village). The village was about 120/30 kms far, so just with the clothes and bags for the beach, I drove to it. The match was at 7 or 8 PM, so it finished two hours later (my two year old daughter in these almost two hours learned several swear words ,😂, because we were just below young fanatic boys). After the match we went to dinner in a famous restaurant near Tomar (more 30 kms far). It was late when we finished and we were around 170 kms from Lisbon, so we decided to sleep in the area. As it happens in several countries, Portugal has also “rural tourism”, some of them, good “small farms” owned by relatively rich people. We begin to search for a symbol that says where they are located. The first one we saw, we decided to sleep there. In “rural tourism”, it is a norm that the owners interact with the customers. When we were waiting for breakfast, I noticed that the owner had several books of Angola. When the owner appeared, and because my father, a Navy Officer, had worked (and died) there, when it was still a Portuguese colony, I asked him what his relationship with Angola was. But before he answered I told him about my father. He asked my father’s name and I replied “Comandante Luis Reis”. The man became petrified, but soon he recovered and told his story. He was a young officer in Angola (there was a “colonial war”), and someone said to him that there was a Navy Officer, that was working in the “terras do fim do mundo”. In English, we can define regions unknown to the white colonizers and quite wild. His mission was to study the rivers in this region, and for that he would open ‘roads” where the jeep could march and in a wild fauna environment. So he met with my father, and after some insistence, he convinced him to allow him to go on the next exploration. I don’t remember well, but he was 3 or more weeks with my father. And to prove that he went to pick the old pictures in paper, where he was with my father in several of them. After breakfast, when I was prepared to pay our stay, he said “I never had the opportunity to thank your father, so you are my guests” and we did not pay anything!!!🤗 Conclusion - an aborted 20 kms trip to the beach, took me to a place where real pictures of my deceased father were in the album of the owner. I hope I am not exaggerating, when I said it was a tremendous coincidence. What do you think?Universe?😅

[@alyoka.travels]

Ohhh what a beautiful story! I love it! Connecting past and present, across countries and generations 🥰 simply beautiful 🤗 thank you for taking your time to share it! 💛

[@parefnyman4739]

What a beautiful ride ❤❤❤

[@alyoka.travels]

Cherry and I agree! ☺️🤩

[@romanianefiltrata8214]

🤟💫💯👍🤩🖐️🏍️🖖🍀

[@joseraiseddante7521]

Merry Christmas mam.

[@alyoka.travels]

Merry Christmas to you, too! 💛

[@EugenioCasulo]

Its almost like the death road in Bolivia, you even estar at the same altitud

[@alyoka.travels]

All those death roads of the Andes 🤩

[@chamilravindatennekoon8]

You have dual purpose tires while Dan has off road.

[@alyoka.travels]

His rear tire is more aggressive, I’m actually considering getting MotoZ for the next tire change. I love my mitas but they’re impossible to find in Ecuador or Peru.

[@НиколайНиколашка]

Это очень мокрая и сырая серия😅😊❤

[@alyoka.travels]

Она же солнечная, заоблачная и музыкально-познавательная 😁👌

[@DavidAyotte-p5u]

Nice ! I'm in Cuenca now. Could you send me Dan's contact information ? Gracias.

[@alyoka.travels]

He’s not an official tour guide (not yet at least) ☺️

[@DavidAyotte-p5u]

Thanks for responding . I retired to Cuenca a year ago . Been riding for almost 50 years . Thanks for providing the map on your video . I'm sure that will be enough information . Thanks again . Really enjoy your videos .

[@alyoka.travels]

You can find the Gpx track on my Wikiloc account, it’s called “Cuenca - Gualaquiza - Indanza - Cuenca” 🤗 PS. Although I’m not entitled to share Dan’s contact information, you can try to connect with him via HU.