History and Geography Meme 160: World Geography and Culture : The Americas: Ecuador

" For us, the highlight of Ecuador was the bustling market town of Otavalo, located at the foot of a volcano and populated by the best-looking, happiest-seeming and most friendly Indians we met in all of South America...

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...The men wore ponchos and wide-brimmed hats, the women attractive hooped skirts and lots of beads. We watched them play a traditional bat-and-ball game in the streets, although both the bat and the ball were so big that hitting one with the other was almost impossible and most of the game seemed to be spent chasing after missed balls."-World Food Cafe, Chris and Carolyn Caldicott

We looked at Ecuador in relation to the other South American countries we have studied, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.

We at Pumpkin Soup and Empanadas.

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