Tag: Mercado

August 28 – 30, 2024. Otavalo was the first Ecuadorian city we set foot in after leaving Colombia. We had asked our taxi driver at the border to take us to the bus stop in Tulcan, but while we were…

One of the fun things about the area of Oaxaca we were stuck in for 4 months was the variety of small towns that were excursion-worthy. Many of these towns specialized in a craft or event or a special natural…

January 27, 2019. I’m really going to miss the mercados here. I can’t think of a real equivalent back in the states. Many mercados are as old as their cities, hundreds of years. On Sundays, the streets are blocked off…

January 12 – 20, 2019. We left Mexico City at first light. Just like when we were planning our drive into the city two weeks earlier we spent a few days before our departure studying our route – the shortest…