We had plenty of time to explore the town. \u00a0 We drove up to the\u00a0Parque C\u00f3ndor one afternoon and we drove to the village of Peguche where Jack bought a, rondador, quena and chacchas and Ryan bought an\u00a0ocarina. \u00a0The days are now filled with haunting Andes music. \u00a0The drive was straight up, about 2000 ft above Otavalo.<\/p>\n The market is every day but on Saturday it triples in size. \u00a0During the week, it takes up the entire town square and on Saturday the streets surrounding the square \u00a0fill up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In another section of town is the food market. \u00a0It is filled with flowers, fruits, vegetables and every single part of every animal. \u00a0Stalls of chicken feet, pig heads, tongues – very colorful.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Louie got hit by a car here and his death was very hard on everyone. \u00a0Two days later, a little dog showed up when we were in the market and followed Ryan all day. \u00a0The dog continued to follow Ryan, sleeping in the road outside the parqueadero every night. \u00a0We didn’t feed her or anything. \u00a0She was particularly devoted to Ryan, waiting for him to come out of stores and waiting for him to wake up in the morning. \u00a0She even tried to follow the van. \u00a0She got shooed away from stores and restaurants and still\u00a0persevered, we could not shake her. \u00a0She is quiet and low key and seems happy to have kids who pet her.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have spent a week in Otavalo, Ecuador. \u00a0Otavalo is in northwest Ecuador at 7,940 feet (according to Max’s new watch with an altimeter). \u00a0Otavalo has the biggest indigenous craft market in South America on Saturday. \u00a0The parqueadero where we are staying is right in the center of town, literally kittycorner from the market square.… Continue reading Otavalo, Ecuador<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","tag-ecuador","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130104_141933.jpg\" "\\"20130104_141933\\"")
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