Beware of the tourists

They have taken the Plaza Foch in their possession. With long confident steps they are parading like victoorious Germans one April day in Norway 1940.

Light fitted in short pants because they are close to the equator line. Undaunted by the fact that this is at 2800 meters altitude and the temperature gauge shows 12 degrees celsius; the uniform code is fortified.

The Ghost Buliding

As a discreet shade. You almost doesn,t notice it, centrally located  close to the park Alameda. Plaza San Blas with its colonial church is aslo  located next door.

 This futuristic building from the fifties looms darkly in the center of Quito. What is its history? Once it was perhaps an ambitious project where financiers exchanged money and pulling the strings. Then they disappeared completely from the face of the earth.

Now it has been lonely and abandoned for many years, with its vengeful and grim look. Those who lays eyes on it realize it's better to walk by.

The Acrobat

This is my lad . What he can do balancing on the staircase!!

But what he gets paid for are indeed to renovate the windows on the crystal palace in the Itchimbia park in Quito.

And he probably don't get more than the standard local wages. They are supposingly a little lesser than you receive in the US or Canada. Risk allowance? I doubt it. You have to trust your acrobatic skills.

The laziest Nature Photographer in the world

He goes, of course to the Galapagos Islands during his vacations, where he takes in at a hotel with all rights. 

Then he plants his fat Bermuda shorts-cased butt in a chair, waiting for the small ones to come to him. And he has a lot of sugar. If thats the reason why the bird decided to solve his table, or if there is a desire for a life in the limelight, is not known. 

The Photographer 'works'  at the Natural History Museum in Oslo.

The Park Assist

Among the water park agency's many employees in Quito, we have this guy. Every time I jog around the park Carolina on my tired legs, he stands there. Indefatigable in the same position, in sunshine or in rain. 

But that is life for the poor in Ecuador. It must be working late and early in order to maintain the family's subsistence. His miserable payouts are enough microscopic compared with the water company boss invoice for the consumption of water.

Closing the tap

It is wet enough in Quito during the rainy season, if not some even forget to turn off this tap.

No, it is sealed, thank Good. This is simply a monument erected by the Water Supply Manager of Quito, probably over himself. A small park near his office is devoted to this excelent liquid.

As you well should be aware of: Water is power!

Revenge!!!

Along the Ecuadorian coast and particularly in the city of Guayaquil, people go crazy then the crab season of the year begins. Armed with clubs they attack the poor animals. They smash their heads, maim them, for at the end devour them.

It had to happen sooner or later. Crabs got enough. The picture is one of them got hold of his assailants club. Which that followed was not a pretty sight.