The Nariz del Diablo train basically goes from Riobamba-Alausi-Siobambe-Alausi. So everyone gets off at Alausi, at least twice. It’s a pretty small town, but it appears that several former residents have moved to Connecticut, as the local travel agency offers special rates to New York, Los Angeles, and Stamford(! – Greg, can you check that out for us? Just kidding!). Other than being the real starting point for the Nariz del Diablo, we only found one noteworthy thing in alausi – a 60-foot tile statue of Jesus built on a hill. Yes, you read that right – sixty feet (or twenty meters)! It’s huge! And apparently there are about 70 people (probably ecuadorian, but at least of Hispanic descent), who contributed to building it in the early 2000′s. Their names are on a plaque (and some of them, as it turns out, live in Stamford Connecticut). You gotta see these pictures!
