Buying and Selling, Local Stock Market

¨Wonder if I could get that pig through customs?¨ White shoes may look silly especially with jeans but its the only colour of leather shoes to wear unless you want to be pestered 100 times a day by shoe-shine boys.

Sunday Market

April 8th 2007
Otavalo Market Otavalo is a town not far north of Quito. I went there Sunday morning and came back later in the afternoon by the local bus. The tourist buses unload about 9am and pack up again at 1pm. However, the locals use the animal market to buy and sell what´s important to them and its held on the other side of the river from the tourist market. Otavalo weavers have produced clothes for ... read more

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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