Timetraveling in Ecuador

The last two weeks while staying with a Kichwa farmers’ family, in the Loma Wasi Village in Tunibamba (pop. 300), in the Ecuadorian Andes, I have been feeling like a time traveler. Tunibamba is at about 9000 feet altitude, at the end of a dirt road about two miles from the next closest town, Cotacachi. …