Journey to the centre of the world part 2

These are some more photos around Saquisili and one of Quito city itself.

Cuy or guniee pig are well known food in Ecuador and Peru, but they are also used for cleansing rituals. They are considered to be a sensitive animal so when a person wants to ensure that a child does not have bad spirits surrounding them they have a ritual with a cuy. The Ecuadorians are usually superstitious as well as being religious.

The photo of Quito was taken at hotel Quito which became a regular little haunt to have mojitos, which was our own cleansing ritual.

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Nigeria

I looked up a few books stores to try and find a guide book about this country – and nothing. I must admit though I didn’t check out if there was a section in the Africa books. However country books were mainly for South Africa and Kenya. Coming from Sydney from my brothers wedding weekend it was my seventh long haul flight in around 6 weeks – I was tired but am getting use to airports and long haul flights and I found myself mouthing the emergency exit demonstration. The flight was not very nice – we seemed to go through a storm – it was pretty spectacular until we hit a huge air pockets and it turned into a carnival ride when people sneak on food and drinks. Getting onto the flight to Lagos at my transit point of Dubai, two things were apparent, the Nigerians travel in numbers and love duty free…The cabins were overflowed with duty free bags, and I was confused as to who knew which bag was whose. Landing in a new country I find exciting – always. The start to the ...

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