"Lonely Planet readers never really experience the culture"
November 6th 2011 It had been five weeks since I had seen an independent tourist in Saraguro when I received a text message just before midday, something to the extent of, “tourist near bank heading to market in cowboy hat and dark glasses.” I hurriedly lathered my two-year-old with sun block, put on his hat and threw him up on my back, grabbed the weekly shopping list, and dashed out the door.
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