Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Travels in Ecuador: Otavalo Indian market






































These images from the Ecuadorian village of Otavalo and its famous Indian market largely speak for themselves, I think. These are proud Indians that dress traditionally, and make wonderful knitted and weaved things by hand. They carry their babies on their backs and wear thin white blouses and long wool skirts.



Otavalo is in a dry high-altitude valley in the Andes, a valley between the eastern and western mountain chain. Some were looking for food in the garbage cans, some were selling food from their gardens, like the woman selling shelled peas.

I took over 1000 photos in Ecuador (those digital cameras!), but I promise I won't show all here on the blog. Only selected ones of some of the wonderful things we saw and tasted.

3 comments:

EH said...

These photos are so beautiful with all the vivid colors and nice portraits of the people. I envy you who can go to distant countries which I probably will never see. So photos are most welcome, in abundance!

LS said...

More photos are coming...

The top photo to the left - after I bought the shawl and took the photo from the woman with the baby on her back, I showed the photo on the camera screen to the baby and he (?) laughed really loud when he saw his and his mom's faces. It was great!

LS said...

hmpf - took the photo OF the woman, not FROM the woman...