Videos tagged with "region"

Cuy in Quito [00:17]
In Quito, Cuy (Guinea Pig) is a delicacy among the locals. Here, as you can tell, we were able to pick out our guniea pig for roasting. A common street food seen often in the sierra region of Ecuador is Cuy with potatoes.
Tags: Cuy, Quito, Ecuador, delicacy, food

Capped Heron in Amazon Basin, Ecuador [00:58]
A capped heron fishes for tadpoles near water's edge. Near Napo River in Ecuador.
Tags: Ecuador, Capped Heron, Birds, Amazon Birds, Amazon Rainforest, Napo River Region, Amazon Basin

G Adventures - Ecuador and Peru [02:18]
A great way to see a region or a country is by going on a small group adventure tour. Get a glimpse of what it's like travelling with G Adventures in Ecuador and Peru.
Tags: adventure, ecuador, gap, group, peru, tour, kilroy

The Wao Welcome Mask in the Yasuni (Full Version) [05:22]
The Waorani are Amerindians from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana and Pastaza Provinces) who have marked differences from other ethnic groups from Ecuador. The entire Yasuni Biosphere Reserve region is ancestral Waorani territory, which extends from the Napo River on the north and west, down to the Curaray River in the south and eastward into Peru (map). This vast territory, which stretches over 20 000 km2, underlies the current limits of Yasuni National Park and the Waorani Ethnic Reserve Information on Waorani history and distribution prior to the twentieth century is scarce and speculative The Waorani were traditionally a highly mobile, semi-nomadic population of hunter-gatherer horticulturalists. They lived in four warring and widely dispersed groups located on hilltops away from major rivers; the headwaters of the Tiputini River constituted the core of ancestral Waorani territory. Other indigenous groups, mainly the Zaparos, lived along the Tiputini and Curaray rivers in essence surrounding the Waorani. When the Zaparos were suddenly decimated by disease and violent displacement during the rubber boom that hit the region in the late 1800s, the Waorani were able to expand their territory northward to the Napo and southward to the Upper Curaray and Villano rivers. Waorani territory likely reached its greatest extent at the beginning of 20th century . At least two lines of evidence suggest that the Waorani were quite isolated, even from other indigenous ...
Tags: Shiripuno Lodge, Shiripuno River, Yasuni National Park, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Yasuni ITT, Waorani People, Amazon River, Amazon, Rainforest, Ecuador, Nature Tours, Eco-Tours, Eco-Travel, Culture, Adevnture, Amazon Rainforest, Adventure, Climbing, Birdi

Ecuador 2011 [12:45]
My slide show from a 3-week trip to Ecuador in July and August 2011 with my mother Ginger, my sister Molly and a family friend Mike: 2 days in Quito; 5 days in the the Amazon region of el Oriente at the Huaorani Ecolodge; 3 days on Isla Isabela in the Galapagos Islands; 7 nights on the luxury M/V Beluga touring the smaller outer islands; and finally 4 more nights in Quito. The photos are by Molly and me, save the one aerial shot of the Shiripuno river, which was shared with me by the folks at Detour.
Tags: Ecuador, el Oriente Oriente (Ecuador), Huaorani, Amazon, Quito, Amazon Rainforest, Mindo, Shiripuno River, South America, Galapagos Islands, M/V Beluga, Blue-footed Booby, Albatross, Huaorani Ecolodge Slideshow, Peter, jpalmer