Always a Parade

As I have said before, Ecuadorians will start a parade at the drop of a hat, and for almost any reason.  Apparently this applies to Peru too.  We went in the town of Tumbes, and quickly came across these school kids preparing for a parade on the theme of ecology.

Taxis in Cuenca are plentiful, but are the normal cars we would see in San Francisco.  The weather in Tumbes, Peru is much warmer though, and the taxis there are small motorcycles built on a three-wheel frame.  In Peru, they call these “mototaxis”, but we saw the same taxi transport system in much of Asia, where they were called “tuk-tuk“.  Each driver painted and decorated his taxi to his taste (all drivers we saw were men), and many also had advertisements painted on them.

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