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The fastest and most direct route from Quito to the northern Oriente is the road to Lago Agrio and Tena via Baeza, built in 1972 as a service road for the Trans-Ecuador Oil Pipeline. Giant oil trucks and supply lorries shudder up and down the eastern flank of the Andes, but despite the traffic, it's an attractive route, traversing a range of habitats as it plunges over 2km in vertical height across 40km. Heading east from Quito through Cumbaya, an exclusive residential district, the road crosses the Rio Chiche at a bridge favoured by bungee jumpers for its dizzying drop. From here buses and lorries inch their way up to the Papallacta Pass at 4064m. At its highest point, named La Virgen after the simple shrine on the roadside, a track heads north up to some radio masts, the access point for to the beautiful Paramo de Papallacta grasslands at the southwestern corner of the Reserva Ecologica Cayambe-Coca. Crossing the Papallacta Pass takes you over the continental divide and as the road deteriorates, the bare, lake-studded hills, are eclipsed by the jagged Volcan Antisana (5758m) to the south, if it emerges from the clouds. On clear days you can see its four glacier-tipped peaks looming over the road. As the highway descends beyond Papallacta, the temperature and humidity rise and the paramo grasses transform into dripping fronds and broad, waxy leaves. Nearing Baeza , rolling pastoral landscapes take over, banked by steep hillsides coated in the thick, green mantle of cloudforest.
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