Members of the first expedition, to the Limón area of southeastern Ecuador, getting ready to go from Quito: Ingi Agnarsson, Wayne Maddison, Gabriel Iturralde and Patricio Salazar.
Typical food of Latacunga: cheese wrapped in a leaf, and allullas, which are basically bun-shaped pieces of pie pastry
The animals ride where they can
A beautiful paramo, ca. 3100 m elevation
Cloud forest
Our home base for the southern trip was the nice little town of Limón
Where we stayed in the Hotel "Dream House", $6 per night per person
In another town, Cañar, we noticed a remarkable abundance of lawyers (abogados)
The Anelosimus collecting was great -- here Gabriel is climbing a tree to get an A. rupununi colony