Now a subject that we haven’t talk about much in this trip. We stopped at a “Bano” for a break at the highest point along our trip through the park.

As you can see it is over 14,000 ASL and that is a fair bit. Now when we first arrived at Quito, which is  9,350 ASL, it was noticeable right away. First,  slight headache and and secondly we both felt a little tired but in fairness we had just came off the plane so we didn’t really see that as an effect. We got use to this fairly quickly and now, just arriving here for the third time it is completely unnoticeable. What we have been told is that one is never sure how altitude  might affect you and that everyone is completely different, in fact I notice it more than Berniece does. Also what has been told to us is that over 10,000 ASL the effect is exponential so when we got to the 14,000 ft level we expected the altitude difference to be quite noticeable, (of course we have pills for altitude sickness), but I am happy to report our bodies did not react negatively to that altitude. I did notice my shoes were a little heavier and I found myself feeling out of breath but it was just that sensation of being out of breath. Berniece has not had the same issue or sensation. All in all we are happy because we still have a lot of sights to see and they are very high up.