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Ecuador is a very cool and exotic place to be, way up there in the Andes. It's got perhaps the most colorful people I've ever photographed out on the streets of the world, anywhere. Up in the mountains it's fairly tranquil. Sure, there's some crime in Quito and elsewhere (like in any other place, but rarely does it turn violent. Both the men and women of most of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador dress out in bright colors (sometimes astounding combinations of them) and both women and men are partial to sporting a highly brushed and primped wide-brimmed hat with a feather or two in it. And aside from being perhaps the most interestingly attired people on Earth, they have great common sense -- even the non-indigenous of Ecuador choosing to forgo the multiple cheek kissing fashions of the old county, choosing instead to greet and part from one another with a single peck on one cheek. They take mayonnaise on their French fries and prefer popcorn in their soup rather than crackers. Ecuadorians are very friendly and polite and extremely hard working. They use the American dollar in Ecuador and seem plenty capable of managing a robust economy, although it's difficult for them to keep a president -- having gone through about a dozen of them since the mid 1990s (it's hard to keep count).
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