These guys were riding on top of a small bus, or buseta. I believe they call this kind of a bus a chiva on the coast. The banner is for a culinary school. It makes me remember the technical school I used to teach at here in the United States, which had an awesome culinary department.
This drummer is from Puyo, a city in the hot lowlands at the eastern base of the Andes. Notice the anaconda on his drum. I don't know how common anacondas are in El Puyo (I'm sure there are some), but they are certainly common farther east in the jungle. When I was in Yasuni National Park with a college group, the director of the station where we stayed told us that a twenty foot anaconda lived in the lagoon a short walk from our bunks. A few of us went out to look. It was hard to see the lagoon, because the jungle was so dense. I noticed a log that had fallen out over the water and walked out on it. I didn't see the anaconda, but about a hundred bats flew out around my head from underneath the log where they had been roosting. It looked like an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
These students and their teacher are from the "Celite" bilingual education center. Bilingual education is big in Ecuador, and many students study another language from the first grade on. The high school that Flor taught at in Ambato was bilingual, and the students received all of their instruction in English.
This young lady was part of a high school marching band.
And here is her partner, in the first line.
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