Crazy Saturday Otavalo market, balcony photo shoot, Peguche waterfall, no hot springs and one last street food experience..... It's hard to say exactly how much the market expanded on Saturday, but I would have to say at least by twice, seeing how it was already pretty huge to begin with on Saturday you could spend the whole day there and not see the whole thing! There was almost everything you could imagine in this place but we were focused on alpaca things. W...

Lago Quicoche, street food, new friends and MACED! We headed by bus in the morning to Lago Quicoche because we were told to go in the morning when the weather is normally good and the volcano is exposed. But again the weather was not on our side as the volcano was engulfed in clouds the whole time we were there! It was still a beautiful volcanic lake and we took a boat trip around it with a stop to see the volcanic gas bubbles coming up from the water, pretty ...

Otavalo We headed to Otavalo two days before the Saturday market to make sure we got a good hotel. Well it turned out we got a great hotel on the corner of the market block with a balcony and an amazing view of the whole market Square! Every morning they haul out all of the goods and set up their tents and every night they take down their tents and haul away their goods in giant bags that men carry on their backs. Mom and I were walking to the market as they wer...