Kichwa woman paints pottery

After lunch back at the lodge and a short rest we visited a Kichwa community to see how they make their beautiful pottery. The Kichwa are indigenous people native to the area and they have developed remarkable ways of living on the edge of the modern world. They get some support from the government, as in electricity, but they have to gather drinking water from the rain. Jaire's grandparents raised him in a Kichwa village 3 hours by car and 1/2 hour by canoe down the Napo--an area that doesn't get much business. The women of the community make such intricate designs on their pottery we were sure they were factory made when we first saw them. They we saw one being painted.