Chugchilán is a typical village in the Ecuadorian Andes, a lot goes on, but nothing happens. All the men wear gumboots and all the women wear colourful shawls. There are plenty of cute, grubby faced kids and almost as many animals in town, as people. There is a town square, lined by a church, and a volleyball court. Sunday is market day. The rest of the week the atmospheric comings and goings of clouds comprise the majority of local traffic.

Friday, 23 April 2010

23 abril, vienes


Today I didn’t feel like another uneventful stroll through town instead I hiked the ridge above looking over Chugchilán. The landscape is a pure pleasure to behold. It is so grand and expansive. The mountains so majestically massive with canyons incised angular and deep at the foothills.

And somehow they farm all over it. A patchwork of greens with monopoly like huts dotted amongst the green checks, crease and crevices. Each monopoly house with its own dog barking, child laughing (or crying) and at least one per valley with the radio on full ball, bass lines reverberating across the fields.

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