Dia de Los Difuntos (day of the dead celebration) Most Ecuadorian and Latin American people go to the cemetery and meet at their family plot. This is a community event, flowers, wreaths, fresh painted markers and family history are shared. This is one of our most colorful days to see our town’s cemetery in Cotacachi. […]
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What fun and joy visiting these delightful elderly women. Ages from 80 to 102. The women were eagerly awaiting our arrival. We danced, we sang and even had a 10 year old boy with us who sang and played the guitar. We gave each woman a new scarf, a warm pair of socks and a […]
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Cotacachi Nursing Home Christmas Celebration – 2010 Fifteen Gringos packed into a couple of vans bringing coconut pies, homemade cakes, sodas and lots of fresh fruits to the Indigenous Nursing Home. As we approached the front door in our Santa Claus hats – the women were eagerly awaiting our arrival in their Santa hats. The […]
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In Ecuador the holiday is interpreted as a day to “catch up” with the ones who are no longer with us but have a life in a different world. People pack lunches of traditional food, flowers and offerings and head for the cemeteries where they spend the day as a family talking, eating and performing […]
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GOOD FRIDAY IN QUITO, ECUADOR Written and Photographed by Patricia McCormick I had the privilege of witnessing the El Jesus del Gran Poder procession in Quito on Good Friday. It is one of the largest Good Friday processions in the world; second only to Seville, Spain. I was not prepared for how moving the procession […]
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