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| Jim Markowich | profile | all galleries >> Ecuador & the Galapagos 2007 >> Saquisili Market | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| On Thursdays, the small town of Saquisili is enlivened by one of South America's most important indigenous markets. Luckily, we happened to have the car on a Thursday, so we were able to head out of Quito, sixty miles south on the Pan Americana Highway and watch the market in action. |
 Go, Bugs, go! |
 tree tomatoes |
 someone's soup |
 corn meal blocks |
 pig at the market |
 rolled mats |
 baskets made of car tires |
 ears of corn |
 what is them little fruits? |
 two kids and some greens |
 roasted porker |
 fried cornmeal cakes |
 damned if we know.... |
 stacked fruit |
 lunchtime at the market |
 exiting the pig truck |
 enormous load of greens |
 colored popcorn |
 chicken sellers |
 ducklings for sale |
 cute little girl |
 pig meat and bananas |
 back of an open truck |
 kid, milk, vegetables |
 inside Saquisili's main church |
 street corner in Saquisili |
 small hotel, Saquisili |
 tomatoes |
 back roads west of Saquisili |
 mountain village |
 mountain village burro |
 mountain village church, school |
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