Religious Processions in the Week Leading up to Easter Quito 2009

Different religious processions in the week leading up to Easter 2009 in Quito, Ecuador. The locations in this video are all a few blocks from where I lived, in Centro Historico, which was safe in the day, but questionable at night in certain places. I stayed in most nights, but I would walk alone at night not infrequently in certain safer areas, for short walks for whatever reason -- the little police hut up the hill a half block away, near the nearest tiendas with random drinks and food items for sale made late night shopping there a possibility, but down the hill and certainly under the bridge, both two blocks away, those stores/areas would be foolish to be near at night. Rich people up hill. The whole time filming the noisier, busier procession I was very conscious that this situation, packed-in tourists mixed in with locals, was peak pickpocket conditions, which distracted me and didn't leave me shooting more than a couple minutes of film before putting my camera away and walking somewhere that no one knew I had a camera with me.