Are you getting tired of my recaps yet? Hope not because we still have several days left to go!
Thursday was market day! We got up and went to the Saquisili Market. There were three parts to this market-a large animal market, small animal market, and a craft market. Each one was just as crowded as the last. Kind of intimidating!
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| The Saquisili Market was hopping! |
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| Pigs getting a tan waiting to be purchased |
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| MMMMMOOOOOO! |
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| Llamas! |
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| Isn't this lady gorgeous? |
I had to get a picture of me among the craziness that was the large animal market. There were just animals tied up everywhere!
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| Me at the Saquisili Market |
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| I think I found Bo Peep's sheep! |
I couldn't believe this giant pile of banans was at the large animal market. I'm not exactly sure why they were there but I did learn that pigs like bananas.
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| Banana anyone? |
As we traveled to the small animal portion of the market, we saw people selling chickens out of bags on the sidewalks. See the chicken poking it's head out?
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| Bags of chickens being sold on the sidewalk |
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| Fruit stand at the small animal market |
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| Chickens |
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| Lots of veggies! |
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| Poor little cuy! |
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| There was a flea market at the small animal market-this guy had a lot of stuff! |
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| Poor June only wanted one banana but they'd only sell her this giant bunch! |
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| Lady selling rope at the craft market |
We had lunch at the Hotel Cotopaxi and then went with the Habitat group to tour a rose plantation. Francisco was our tour guide.
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| Our guide, Francisco, telling us about the rose plantation |
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| Roses ready for export |
Francisco told us that flowers are cut and shipped within 24 hours. Crazy to think that happens when they have over 2 million plants there! I also learned that the longest stem on a rose is 10 feet long! That would be one tall vase!
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| Sorting roses for export |
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| Beautiful roses! |
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| Standing among the roses |
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| In order to cut the roses, the workers have to walk on stilts! |
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| Roses as far as the eye can see! |
Once we finished our tour we went to the Habitat site. We were building the house for Martha, her husband, her son and daughter-in-law, and her two grandchildren. Six people in a tiny house!
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| Habitat site |
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Martha and some of her family
We were scheduled to leave Cotopaxi that night and return to Quito for a day of museums, however, some of us decided we'd rather stay in Cotopaxi and work on the house. So, most of our group stayed behind to help out at the Habitat build for their last day.
After a rousing late night of Go Fish, day 5 was over!
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