A young girl waits with two rope vendors on a hill near the animal section at the Saturday market in Otavalo, Ecuador...Read more articles about our visit to Ecuador...© www.uncorneredmarket.com
Dan is decked out in protective gear at the entrance into one of the mines at Cerro Rico in Potosi, Bolivia. Miners have been extracting minerals - almost all by hand - from this mountain since 1545. The silver taken from here helped to fund the Spanish empire in Latin America.
Even though there was a quarantine for the big animals at the Otavalo Saturday market, a few people still brought their sheep to sell...Read more articles about our visit to Ecuador...© www.uncorneredmarket.com
