Ecuador in WashPost Travel Section

My dad kindly sent me the link to this story about a Post writer's trip around the northern sierra region of Ecuador.

As a woman traveling with another female friend, the writer's focus is--what else?--the shopping she did here. She says that in fact, she picked which haciendas to stay in based on their proximity to Ecuador's biggest artisan markets. She seems to have found the right markets--but the wrong prices. Talking about her time in Otavalo, Ecuador's largest and most well-known market town, she writes:

"We strolled, we pointed, we bargained. Two subtly dyed cotton scarves for $12 seemed plenty cheap to me, but it was a thrill to get them for $10, and the young Andean woman selling them looked happy, too."

Ah! Two scarves for $10? Common lady, everyone knows that those scarves are 3 for $5! No wonder the "young Andean woman" was happy. I'm happy for her too, and glad that the overpaying gringo doesn't have to be me.

That's all for now.