More random Ecuadorian stuff

There are few strollers in Ecuador, and lots of babies and kids.  The women (almost exclusively) carry their infants and up to about three years olds in slings on their backs, as they do the world around -- lovely.  Women here use this method for carrying lots of other stuff, too, even puppies.  Very efficient.

Otavalo has lots of these blue-fatigued guys.  They carry clubs and trash-picking up claws.  Haven't figured out why the fatigues, and why blue - it's not like they'll camouflage here with them.  ?

This is how we do laundry here while we're on the road.  Wash against the stone with a brush, then rinse and hang on a line.  Works just fine.  And there are lavanderias for drop off, too.

And this is the standard dishwashing protocol -- a little pot of skin-eating 

soapy paste (it's pretty harsh) with a sponge.

Kissing across hemipheres, equator in the line beneath us.  Required photo.

This chrysanthemum-type flower, on the top of a mountain had no visible stem.  The wind was so strong the fblossom would have been blown off if it stuck up higher.  

I'd never seen a church with a neon alter.  This one, in a very ornate, gilt church on the major plaza in Otavalo.