Another of our weekly trips into the countryside brought us to ‘el Verde‘ today.  From our apartment, Alberto drove us to Turi, a famous hilltop overlooking Cuenca, then down the other side. We drove a few miles more until we came upon a promising landscape view in this tiny village.

While Evelyn and Alberto painted the scenery, I wandered the surrounding area for awhile.  This place is remote, and few of the locals have cars, so farmers drive up and down the single dirt road with loudspeakers blaring what they have to sell.  One product per truck.  Above you can see one truck loaded with very green bananas. He went by twice, each time with one woman flagging him down to buy a box full of the fruit.  Another truck blared that he was selling potatoes for $10 / box, though I never saw anyone flag him down.  Two other trucks had loudspeakers, but I couldn’t understand what they were selling.