2007/10/22

Otavalo and Laguna de Cuicocha

Otavalo, about 3 hours north of Quito is famous for it's colourful local artisans market, which takes place every Saturday. Together with Laura (the program director of Nuevos Horizontes), her family and Marisol and Emmy (two other volunteers) we made a day trip to Otavalo and also stopped along the way at Laguna de San Pablo. Unfortunately the weather was quite bad and it was so cloudy and misty, that we could not even see one of the several volcanoes surrounding Otavalo.
The weather got a bit better in the late afternoon, when we visited Laguna de Cuicocha. This lagoon is cradled in a collapsed volcanic crater and is more than 200 meters deep.






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