One distinctive thing about Guayaquil was the Jugo stands (juice) on street corners. Ecuador sits right on the equator (hence the name!) and it has an abundance of tropical fruit. The picture at the right shows a stand that featured a greenish-orange fruit they called “Naranja” meaning orange but it wasn’t like our orange but it was some type of related citrus. One of my roommates and another swimmer are buying Jugos for 60 cents (Ecuador’s dollar is based on our dollar); the guy would juice 6 fruit and pour the results into a plastic cup. Since he didn’t add any water and since he had a high turnover, it was OK to drink the jugo. I needed to add azucar (sugar) but most people didn’t. It was excellent!!! I loved the availability of fresh, inexpensive juices all over town. My favorite was a strawberry jugo.
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