January 8, 2012

Ecuador (pt II)

NYE in Quito! Traditions included: wearing yellow underwear, men dressing up as widowed women, eating 12 grapes and making 12 wishes (1 for each month), champagne toast (boring), putting $$ in  your right shoe and not spending it for a year, burning Año Viejos (literally means "old year") which are fake people usually representing political figures or cartoon characters, shooting fireworks all through the night, and salsa dancing!

Men dressed as women pestering cars for $$

Walking down La Avenida Amazonas

Ano Viejo displays on La Avenida Amazonas

Ano Viejos

Burning our Ano Viejo

NYE party props

NYE crew

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