"County Fair" Time in Puyo

Today and for the next several days, the "county fair" is on here in Puyo. Actually, it more of a "state fair" as Puyo is the capital of the Pastaza provience of Ecuador. It is a huge are which is mostly covered with rain forest and open area. Puyo is by far the largest town at some where around 25 to 30,000 people.
The fair is similar in many ways to county fairs in the US. The additional feature is a good showing of all the indiginous groups who live in the area. The pictures below show some of the carfts from the Huaorani culture. This was the tribe that some 50 years ago killed five Americam missionaries.


The picture below is tree bark soaked in water for several days and dried. It is then used for women's skirts or a "baby carrier".

The darts used in the higly effect blow guns are shown below. These darts are made of extremely hard wood and are finely crafted to travel straight.

Other groups are also featured. The pictures below show the hand crafted jewelry of the Shiwar.

There is some locally made furniture which is shown below.

A kind of "Chinese patato" shown below is cut up in a modern slicer. The chips are deep fried and are very good. They are a bit more crisp then chips we know in the US

There are several meat choices available. Check out the next two pictures for the obvious answers to these choices.

There were a number of displays in which the excellent vegetables of the area we on display. Even here there seems to be a contest between the "naturally grown" and fetilized products.

Sugar cane is grown all over the area and the resulting products are on display. Easy to get your sugar fix here.

Future blog postings will feature other displays from the fair.