Follow my blog with Bloglovin Even today, life in small villages in Ecuador are characterised by almost complete isolation from the rest of the country, minimal access to education and material things from the developed world. Consequently, villages habitually leave boulders and chains across their roads at night to prevent outsiders from driving in and rustling their livestock. If there is an protest or disrespect from authorities in passing through their land, they do not hesitate in throwing up roadblocks and even aggressively barring entry to anyone including police, officials and tourists alike. In short, this is a very delicate, sensitive environment, that they will protect if it there are any signs of being threatened Here is a picture courtesy...
The indigenous people have been around for a long time. They dress distinctively. The women wear bright white shirts with embroidered flowers and long black skirts, multiple layers of gold beads around their necks, and their long, glossy hair wrapped with a ribbon in the back. Men wear black felt hats covering their long braided hair, wearing wool ponchos, and often with bright white pants. They both wear a sandal that looks like a flat espadrille.
The people themselves are small – I am taller than almost every man here at 5’6″ – but they have broader chests that allow them to easily breathe at such a high altitude.
Pachacutec Five centuries have passed since the Inca Empire was destroyed and yet images and stories of the Incas abound in the world and its region. A lot of history, new stories, and new events are unfolding. The...y have taken place in that time, but the Inca–or at least a single Inca, Pachacutec — reigns supreme both in people’s memory, in stories, in statues, and in textiles.
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Inca art forms had a tendency towards austerity. Weaving, especially in vicuña wool, was of the highest quality, but it lacked the inventiveness of the weaving of coastal peoples. The cutting of semiprecious stones was a widely practiced art, although the Inca stone-cutters depended on the coastal trade for shell and stones. Goldsmithing was an Inca specialty. Almost all the gold mines worked in historical times had been previously mined by the Incas. Smiths who worked gold and silver lived in a special district and were exempt from taxes. The best examples of their art have not survived, since all went into the crucible of conquest; but according to the Spaniards who first saw it, Cusco seemed ablaze with worked gold. Some of the buildings were covered with gold plate imitating...
