Changes

In direction north: Get a bus from the "Carcelen"-Terminal in the very north heading ether to Cayambe/Otavalo/Ibarra/Tulcan. Get out at the first "peáje"(Toll-Station). The bus will need 15min.(If you take one of the buses from the terminal heading to a city further north, they'll charge at least $01,25but if you walk about 1km down the road to the bridge, you can get a local bus for $.35, as of March 2015. ) There you can easily ask for lifts in direction north.