Failed Canar Animal Market Tour

We had arranged for a tour driver to take us to Canar early this morning to see the Sunday Animal Market there, which is the supposed to be the largest in the region.  Unfortunately, our driver did not understand what we were trying to photograph, and by the time we got there, it had pretty much concluded, leaving us nothing to photograph.

Enroute we stopped at the second largest Inca ruin in the region.  Pretty small compared to Machu Picchu in Peru (which we saw a few years ago), but reasonably scenic.

We had multiple failed attempts to explain to our driver that we were looking for somewhere to photograph indigenous people dressed in their native garb, going about their daily lives.  Finally we got him to simply stop on the side of a busy street, while we both positioned ourselves on strategic corners and photographed the people walking by.  This didn’t give us the level of interaction we had hoped for in a market setting, but we at least managed to salvage a few shots from the day.

On the way back, our driver suggested roasted pig for lunch, so stopped at a roadside stand with a pig out front.  The skin was a lot stiffer than I expected, but tasty.  The pig arrived in both fried and boiled forms, both of which were also pretty good.

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