Omain
One main road snakes its way down into Ecuador’s Oriente, or Amazon Basin, from the highlands, and that’s how our bus went. We left the mountain town of Banos in the late afternoon and began descending immediately. A massive cliff loomed just outside the bus windows. The sight of it only added fuel to the worry-fire that had ignited when we saw the murals in the Banos church depicting angels rescuing vehicles falling off cliffs. Soon after the bus began moving, we noted that the local passengers were leaning into the hillside at regular intervals and wondered what that was all about. Then, one of our group members looked out their window and saw little more than hundreds of feet of thin air separating our bus from the river far below. At that point, we realized everyone was leaning into the hillside to keep the bus on the road.
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