Ecuador: Blue-eyed Mestizo

Man of an Andean tribe known in Ecuador as Cholos Cuencanos, or Indians of Cuenca, the country’s third largest city. These people are cholos only in the way they dress and live. But they are really mestizos, and to me this blue-eyed man could easily pass for a European.

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Ecuador: Bringing Home The Flock At Dusk

Little indigenous girls herding their family’s sheep home at dusk near Ecuador’s Andean town of Ambato, south of Quito. The  sheep are all dragging leashes behind them.

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Ecuador: Eating Breakfast At The Market

Hearty indigenous market breakfast at Ecuador’s Zumbahua, an Andean village in the Cotopaxi Province. The female cook is dropping a plate to be washed in  a pot of hot water on the fire.

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Ecuador: Starting A Cold Day On Chimborazo's High Slopes

Hiking up a high slope of Ecuador’s snow-capped Chimborazo Volcano at dawn, I surprised this indigenous man as he was ready to herd sheep to pasture from the saddle of his horse. To protect himself against the biting Andean cold he had covered his legs with sheep-skin pants. His people, whose tribe name I failed to learn, live a harsh semi-nomadic life among their sheep, sleeping in small straw huts.

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Colombia: Misty weekend at Ladrilleros Beach

Misty weekend at the Ladrilleros beach along Colombia’s Pacific Coast near Buenaventura. The beach is a popular with the people of hot Cali.

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Colombia: Travel On The Magdalena River

At Colombia’s Puerto Boyacá, passengers board a boat for a trip on the Magdalena River. Colombia is one of the world’s most beautiful and geographically varied countries I have had the fortune to explore. And its people, no matter their cultures and racial origins, are Latin America’s friendliest.

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Colombia: Mompós, A Spanish Colonial City

Sleepy Mompós and its charming Spanish colonial architecture are built on an island of the mighty Magdalena River that bisects Colombia.

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Colombia: Transporting Potatoes To Market

In Colombia, one early morning, two farmers are walking down from their cold Andean fields of El Cocuy Mountain, transporting their potatoes to the market of the eponymous village of El Cocuy, in Boyacá Department.

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Tenza, Colombia, Where Conversing In The Middle Of The Road Poses No Risks

Market day in Tenza, a small town in Colombia’s Boyacá Department, has brought to a corner of the central square people with baskets to sell and stories to share.

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Colombia: Boyacá Misty Dawn

Under the mist of dawn, a path runs through pastures near Paipa, in Colombia’s Boyacá Department. A bewildered cow seems to wonder what a photographer is doing there at that hour.

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