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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Otavalo's cementario and other doorways

While in Otavalo, the market town, we walked out a bit and found a huge cemetery. It was a Sunday evening, and not very crowded, but there were folks cleaning, patching the concrete on crypts, hanging out.
Just to the left of the entrance, a frescoe on the wall.
The crypts were about 2X2, mostly secured behind metal facings/grates with locks.  Many had fresh flowers inside.  There were several flowers shops just outside the entrance.  

Hard to see from this poor photo, but several graves have multiple crosses on them, families sharing a resting place.  
This one has a live rosebush ringing the gravesite.
View up the hillside into the graves of the more common folk.

We walked a different route back to our hostel and found this coffin shop open for business.  Note the doors on either side -- this was so typical of Otavalo, beautiful, individually designed, distinct, impenetrable doors.  The doors from the main church are below.

Doorways on a random building on the walk from the main square to our hostel.  
  




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