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 El Angel, Ecuador - small lake.  These trees are called paper trees because when the conquistadors invaded Ecuador they used the bark from these trees to write their notes on.

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 Cotopaxi, Ecuador the highest active volcano in the world.

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 National food - cuy is a guinea pig

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El Angel, national park - two weeks after I was there a major fire devasted this area.  No one knows how the fire started.

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 This is statute in a small town.

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 Lago Quitoa - this is an old volcano crater that is filled with salt water.

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People sell pigs on the side of roads.  We drove by two hours later and there was only the top half left.

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