Ecuador: The Food
We didn’t spend as much time in Ecuador as we would have liked – two days in Quito, four days in the jungle, and two days in Otavalo, a smaller town about two hours north of the city – but we were coming to the end of our trip, and knew we’d want and need time to get across the expanse of Colombia before heading home (especially because we had a plane to catch up on the Caribbean Coast on our last day in South America). And considering our four days in the jungle weren’t particularly notable in terms of food and eating, we really didn’t have a lot of experience with the cuisine of Ecuador. But we did what we could with the time we had, and between Quito and Otavalo we spent significant amounts of time at public markets, which gave us great insight into the diets and cuisine of the people in those areas.
