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Adventure Travel Ecuador Teargas - A New Experience! February 6, 2001 - Quito, Ecuador     Mad Max was very excited about a photo opportunity for me at the local university! Indigenous people from all over Ecuador were in the middle of an organized strike that had closed major highways country-wide. The headquarters and main focal point of the demonstrations was close by with a myriad of different tribes and cultures camping out on the campus.   An opportunity to photograph many different tribes in one place! And experience teargas firsthand! I didn't get to see any actual cannisters launched until that night on the tv news, but I sure felt the residual effects. We spent a couple of hours wandering among the various groups and camps. Although most sects had different styles of dress and their own language, they all seemed to speak at least some Spanish. Max was not shy about asking about their villages and lifestyles. He was recruiting interested villages in participating with his eco-tour foundation. As we walked away from the campus we encountered a pick-up full of foodstuff's for the protesters that had been stopped by a police roadblock. Max intervened on behalf of the nuns driving the truck and said that there were plenty of people to carry the cargo into the camps. The police said."No, you can't do that either!" Finally the police gave in to Maxs insistence and let the truck pass through to the hungry protesters. PREVIOUS || NEXT Back to Home Tell your friends about this page

 

Why am I Doing This? Pt.4 "Here I go again, asking the familiar question. At the beginning of each leg of my journey I seem to question my motives for travelling? The answers vary each time, as if a new and different person were asking. Blah Blah Blah... I'm boring myself with my own writing. I wish I could say..."