Cotacahi, Ecuador: a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans dance on their way to "take over" the main square of this Andean town, 70km north of Quito to mark the Inti Raymi (sun festival).

At first sight of the moon's shadow creeping across the sun, the crowd of astronomers and enthusiasts on the island burst into applause, according to the AFP news service.

During Sunday's total solar eclipse, the moon covered the sun over Easter Island, so that only the faint, white ring of the sun's upper atmosphere, or corona, was visible.