Blog – Page 21 – JoHook Travel Photographer

08 Jul 2012
- Charity
- Ecuador
- people
- Photography

Cenit and the day of the family

Ecuador still has a large amount of indigenous people who live very simply amidst much poverty. 30% of the people that CENIT works with have no running water, sanitation or transport services. Cenit is a school for poor and indigenous people in the South of Quito, Ecuador. It is run by nuns who initially […]

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08 Jul 2012

Cotacachi and Inti Rymi

To get to Cotocachi you need to catch a bus from Carcelen, north of Quito. The bus took 2 hours. The bus to Cotocacahi from Otovalo takes 20/25 mins. Stayed in hotel/hostel Mindala -clean hot water TV courtyard and roof terrace. Cotocachi is a very clean town and has two churches, a small market. Tenth […]

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08 Jul 2012
- Charity
- Ecuador
- people
- Photography

Fundacion- Amen riding with the disabled

I loved watching the children’s faces when they saw the horses. These severely disabled children would come alive with the touch of a horse. My job was to hold the child onto the horse and walk round the paddock. Getting up very early and travelling from Quito to Tumbaco was tough but the rewards of […]

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19 Apr 2012
- Ecuador
- people
- Photography
- Travelling

Otovalo

Otovalo has a colourful Saturday market in Plaza de Los Ponchos selling blankets, rugs, tapestries, scarves and foodstuffs like grains. At 5 am you can see the animal market and later in the day the vegetable and artefacts market. The market ladies dress in long black skirts, white embroidered blouses and wear multiple gold (coloured) […]

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19 Apr 2012

Ambato Fiesta Flores Y Frutas

There is no February Carnival in Ambato. It is a much more sedate affair. Huge queues of traffic to the festival of fruits and flowers meant that the two hour journey took four hours and that was after the bus almost toppled over by taking a corner too sharp after the driver took a […]