Nearly 2 months without our truck. We find la Gazelle with a great pleasure at the main harbour of Ecuador.
Guayaquil :
There is a rivalry between the coast and the mountain... Guayaquil is the main city of the coast and gets more and
more
modern.
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We are welcomed in Erika's home, who is member of the worldwide hospitality club : www.hospitalityclub.org
Her family gets a chicken farm...
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The chickens get only 2 hours of sleep per day... they grow in 12 weeks.
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Cacao
Quito : Colonial city at the altitude of 2850 meters
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Monastery San Francisco
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Jesus is not represented with the same look in all
parts of the world
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He is the most famous painter of Ecuador. His museum in Quito is absolutely wonderful
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The works on the hands and the expression of suffering are just great
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Otavallo : The ecuador people say that there are two major markets in South America : Cuzco in Peru and Otavallo
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A part of it is very touristic where we can find the colors...
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...and the other part is more local sale of eggs in the back of a truck
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for the lunch, guinea-pig or pork ?
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to reach Otavallo, we cross the equator
0 degree South, 78 degrees West
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