International Living Category

Day of the Dead

Posted on 2 Nov 2008 In: International Living

All of my life I’ve heard how Halloween was linked to this really scary holiday celebrated by tribes called Day of the dead. I always thought it was an evil thing. Obviously, there are some people who probably do take it to extremes, but here, in Ecuador, it is really a pretty cool tradition.
Halloween [...]

Cocaine Tea Anyone?

Posted on 23 Oct 2008 In: International Living

Did you know that it is perfectly legal to purchase tea leaves that are from the coca plant (same thing they process to make cocaine)?
Living high up in the Andes mountains of Ecuador, I recently discovered this secret. Here the coca plant isn’t used so much for it’s hallucinogenic purposes as for it’s true medicinal [...]

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