Joanna and I spent twelve days in Ecuador for our honeymoon. Neither of us had traveled abroad in almost ten years and it was our first time in South America. We visited Quito, Baños, Latacunga, Sigchos, Isinliví, Chugchilán, and Quilotoa (the last four being on a multi-day hike -- I will have a separate post about that). Most of the people that we met didn't speak any English, and we had very little Spanish. But between an app, a phrase book and some creative gesturing, we made it work. We traveled mostly by bus and made up our plans as we went.
Eating vegan was tough! However, the fresh fruit and fruit juices were the best we'd ever had, anywhere.
In this post, I'll share some of my photos from the cities and towns we visited. In the next post, I'll share photos of the rural and wilderness areas that we hiked through on the Quilotoa Loop.
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Photography: I brought my Olympus e500 from 2005. I enjoy the challenge of working within the limitations of older CCD cameras (this one has a genuine Kodak-made sensor) and their unique color rendering. The 8MP resolution is low enough that the images can't really be cropped/reframed much, and the sluggish buffer rate forced me to slow things down. In those ways, it was a lot like shooting film. For this set, I challenged myself to keep the original 4:3 aspect ratio of each photo, even though it feels a bit wierd not be in 3:2.