Otavalo

Our day started early, 6:30, we took a cab to downtown Quito to meet with our tour. There were about 15 of us. All ages all nationalities. Many of them young woman who were traveling for weeks alone around South American. Our first stop was another Equator line site, ( it's a long line of latitude)  this a a non profit organization and it had some very interesting historical and scientific information about the Equator. You can visit their web site.www.quitsato.org.

After that we stopped for breakfast where we saw them making by hand corn biscottis and then cooking them in a wood fire. Mmmmmmm.

We made to the  Otavalo market about 11 and that was a wonderful experience of sights and sounds. Every Saturday and Sunday the town square closes down for these merchants to set up booths. It was fun to wander around and see the wide variety of goods.

 

Most of the merchant were dresses in indigenous clothing. One native woman on our tour explained the meaning of the wardrobe.