Otovalo

Today, we took a three hour bus ride to Otovalo, the largest indigenous market in South America, although we kind of misjudged how long it would take to get there, and it turned out we had just an hour there before we had to head back, for the 6pm group meeting.

The market itself was OK, alot of the stalls were selling the same stuff though – alpaca wool, bracelets and jewelery, ponchos, and wood or stone carvings. There was also a food market there though, where we saw one guy selling live baby chickens in paper bags, and several stalls with kilos and kilos of so many different kinds of spices that would cost a fortune in the UK.






That evening, after returning to Quito, we went to Mongo’s Mongolian Barbeque – $5 all you can eat, and it was excellent food as well.

Up early in the morning though to get a bus to the Amazon jungle.