It rained for the most part of the night. I think. And a little bit in the morning, judging by the look of the streets and the mist that engulfed the whole town. Besides, it’s very, very cold! It’s like an early morning in Predeal in autumn.
When we went out for breakfast we felt like in a ghost town – no one on the streets and all the shops closed. Today and tomorrow they celebrate the Day of the Dead, therefore everyone is at the cemetery. They clean up the tombs and people bring flowers and colored breads shaped like children, as an offering.
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Pentru varianta in limba Romana dati click aici.
Big day today. We woke up around 6 a.m. First thing was to pack everything quickly and to decide what bags we were going to leave in storage at the hostel for the 3 day trip to Otavalo (small mountain village some 3 hours away from Quito where we were going for the Day of the Dead celebrations).
Tudor was very nervous. He remembered last year’s episode in Addis Ababa when we were unable to board a bus because of the chaos at the bus station. I hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
We worried for nothing. It was crowded at the station, indeed, hundreds of people were traveling to Otavalo for the celebrations, but everything was well organized. It went smooth. Ok, I admit, we had a little help from a lady who was also waiting in line, and whose husband worked for a while in Romania. She said that our countries are much alike – mountains, valleys, seaside, delta, and that he loved it.
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Pentru varianta in limba Romana dati click aici.
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Some environmental portraits that were meant to be part of a series. The client cancelled the assignment, but I took the pictures anyway.
Some 10,000 people from all backgrounds, state employees and civil servants protested in Bucharest, Romania on 07.10.2009 against low wages, new retirement laws and the government in general.
The trip to Ecuador which I mentioned earlier is beginning to take shape. We bought the plane tickets and will be heading deep into the Amazon jungle (did you notice that going to the Amazon jungle is always ‘deep’?) in about two months.
The trip will take us through various towns, documenting the way Ecuadoreans celebrate the ‘Day of the Dead’, then east into the jungle where we will meet the indigenous Waorani tribe - wonderful, simple and proud hunter-gatherers - and in the end we will spend a few days relaxing and sunbathing in November on the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
As we did before, this trip too will be documented and recorded in the form of a travel diary. But this time, to break the language barriers, I have decided to make it a video diary. It will take more time to produce, but the result will be worth the wait.
The diary, or parts of it, will also be present on the website of ‘Barefoot Expeditions‘ or here, the local travel agent who was kind enough to custom-build the Jungle part of the trip to suit our specific needs.
As a conclusion I leave you with zReportage from ZUMApress which features my work from Ethiopia as this week’s essay. If you don’t know what it’s about, there a text attached also, which I recommend reading.
Military parade held in Bucharest marking the end of Romania’s presence in Irak
Femeile imbracate in haine traditionale asteapta sa intre in biserica la slujba de duminica.
Satenii se indreapta catre cimitirul de langa biserica pentru a participa la un parastas.
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