The Moya Community is an indigenous group of 72 families who farm and accept visitors to see their community.
Originally the Moyaians were ice farmers and would climb the Chimborazo volcano to retrieve blocks of ice that they would sell in Riobamba. Balthazar Ushca is the last ice merchant left who makes the trek up the mountain with his donkey and tools to carve out a 60 pound block of ice twice a week. He acknowledges that this is for tradition only and that the 5 dollars he earns isn’t worth the effort. He loves it though.
He is last of his kind anywhere in he world and there is a small museum that celebrates his heroism. We met him and his daughter in person here and tried a piece of their ice block.
The world around me 