my parents have missionary friends here in ecuador and i have had the privledge of connecting with with ross h. he helped me have an experience no guidebook could provide.
i just returned from spending three days and two nights in the small village of miraflores (actually the name of six villages in the area).
this village is made up of exclusively the quichau people. indigenous to ecuador and peru, they also made up what we know as the inca civilization.
i took a bus from riobamba to above colta where i was able to take a pickup truck to the village.
this farming village exists in relative isoltion above 11,000 feet. perched in the clouds and close to the sun, these beautiful people live simple but difficult lives cultivating steep hillsides of rich soil and husbanding typical farm animals.
my contact was mariano. he is the pastor of the local evangelical congregation and a farmer. he was exceedingly gracious to me considering i am a foreigner he had never met and i do not speak either language he does (spanish and quechua). he kindly would wait as i thumbed through my spanish/english dictionary.
the stories of my time in miraflores will follow.
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