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Markets, jungle and volcanoes

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November 19th 2007
Just 20 minutes after leaving Quito and still within its suburbs, Frieda, our big yellow truck needed to have its brakes replaced. Great start to a 8000km truck trip! Successfully repaired quite quickly we were soon in Otavalo, a famous market town in Ecuador. A 6am start the next day meant we were at the animal market surrounded by mooing cows, squealing pigs, chickens held upside down and no ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Otavalo

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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