“Quito se llama ‘La luz de America,’ he told me and I thought that it wouldn’t hurt so much. This place of water pouring and dripping down verdant valleys and soft, smooth rocks rising up from craters with lava lakes and palms and monos and oil.
Browsing Tag
Ecuador
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I came across a phrase that caught my attention while perusing the internet the other day. “Poverty porn.” The article I read discussed how many NGO’s are stuck in a cycle of…
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One of my favorite things to do while traveling is to get lost with my camera. I enjoy wandering down side streets and going off the beaten path to capture the every day…
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One of the things I constantly find myself drawn to while visiting cities around the world is street art. The messages and images spray painted onto cracking walls in narrow alleys…
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My ears are still full of air. No matter how hard I lean my head to the left and to the right, everything has a muffled tone. I hear…
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`The doors of Ecuador are always open to you,` I`m told by a young man sitting next to me on one of my last bus rides. Somehow the people are starting…