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Cuenca Slideshow
Cuenca
Travel Blogs from Cuenca, Ecuador
Day 118 - Cuenca - Dark Eerie Streets
... I have become obsessed with taking pictures of all the colonial buildings and churches wherever we go and there was one on a hill overlooking Cuenca I was keen to visit. El Turi was too far to walk so we caught a Taxi. I was keen to avoid what happened ...
bosque
... Pero la vista y el paisaje estaba la pena. This Saturday we visited with the school the "forest Aguaronga" which is a 45min drive from Cuenca. The park is between 2500 and 3200 mosl. The protected area consists of about 2082 ha. We did a walk and I still ...
Cuenca
... war ich dann in der Sprachschule, die recht gut war. An einem Morgen bin ich ganz frueh zu einem Nationalpark im Westen von Cuenca, eine Stunde im Bus entfernt und auf 4000 m Hoehe, gefahren, El Cajas. Bekannt fuer seine vielen Lagunen war es wirklich ...
Nationalpark "Cajas"
... nbsp; ;-) Doch zurueck zu diesem Tag! Besonder genossen habe ich die Luft! Wenn frau die ganze Zeit in Cuenca ist, dann wird sie schon ganz schoen eingeschlossen in eine Abgasluft, die recht stark ist! Diese schwarzen Rauchwolken, die ...
Three days too long?
... ;Four days? In Cuenca? Whatever for - one is enough!” There is a strong and well documented rivalry between Quito and Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city and so I am not sure quite how unbiased my friends assessment of the duration of my stay is ...
Banos to Cuenca and Culture learning
... a little bitter and twisted about the spanish and ruining there culture and life, but i guess you would be too? Most of cuenca was spent wandering good little city. There are also photo´s of the bus ride which was hmmm interesting in the sense that ...
Cuenca & Cajas
... ben ik vervolgens op bezoek geweest bij een Nederlands gezin die ik in Rio Muchacho ontmoet heb, en die voor een jaar of 3 in Cuenca wonen, Ludgard, Stephanie en hun drie onwijs schattige kinderen van 6, 3 en 1,5. Ze wonen er erg mooi en Floris van 6 was ...
Cuenca - Parque nacional Cajas
Cuenca is by far the prettiest city that we have seen since the beginning of our trip. Old colonial style, with a lot a parks and small squares, it is definitly a charming place. We spent two entire days in the town, enjoying cafes, restaurants and ...
On The Road to Cuenca
... Hat factory. As it is named, the Panama Hat would have seemed to have originated in Panama, but the origin is Ecuador. Ecuadorian men wore these hats while building the Panama Canal, so that is where the popularity took root. The straw ...
Cuenca - City & Cuy
Cuenca is, without a doubt, Ecuador's most beautiful and cleanest city. Not only is the colonial side of town well-preserved, but even the new town is exquisite. We'd both heard and read this many times, but we were still somehow surprised. The barrio we ...
Churches, flowers and nice views of Cuenca
... heures de bus! Après une nuit de réflextion, je décide donc de faire une dernière étape en Equateur dans la ville de Cuenca qui est plus ou moins sur le chemin et qui apparemment est assez sympa! Dès mon arrivée, je découvre une toute autre face ...
Parque Nacional de Cajas
... around the major lagoons of the park and ended back on the road. The bus had climbed quite a bit up into the mountains from Cuenca and it was immediately cold, wet, and foggy. On first impression, I was struck by the utter silence, the muted colors, and ...
Cuenca - Ecuadorian dates and national parks
11th October After getting the flight from Galapagos to Guayaquil, I boarded a bus to Cuenca. Non event really until the last hour when the girl next to me offered me some chocolate and we started talking. I ended up teeing up dinner with her tomorrow ...
Colonial Cuenca
So we arrived in Cuenca from Vilcabamba feeling all nice and refreshed after a few days of chilling out! Cuenca is the third largest city in Ecuador by population, which totals 467,000. It is the capital of the Azuay Province. It is located in the ...
Cuenca has so many churches!
A five hour bus trip got us from boiling hot Guayaquil to breezy Cuenca! We arrived in the evening, checked ourselves into the little creaky guesthouse and went out for some food. Cuenca is home to 18 churches!! We´re unsure who uses them all ...
Cuenca de Indias, 3ème ville équatorienne
Une nouvelle jolie ville coloniale, baptisée Cuenca par un espagnol originaire de ... Cuenca en Espagne. Une grande première, il ne pleut quasiment pas ! ...
day 63: lucky and not but yes
... and walked off. We got to stand the rest of the way, but I saved 6 dollars. It was dark when we got to Cuenca. The taxi driver dropped us at the correct address, but the hostel we had chosen was not there. Thank you Exlibris for selling us an ...
Roaming
Visited a panama hat factory this morning. The hats if fact originate in Ecuador but got their name as they were popular with the workers on the Panama canal. They were amazing, and range in price from $15 to $2000. The top quality ones felt so ...
La Luna Llena en Cuenca
... lentils, soy scramble and beans. A 40 something year old man and his wife owned the restaurant and welcomed me to Cuenca. When I returned to the hostal, I found a completely different scene from before. Groups of people bustled about the ...
Time to catch up with Erin
I managed to have another fight with Bamba on leaving Cuenca this morning. I can't seem to do anything right by him and he takes everything I say and do negatively. I think the communication there doesn't work at all. I'm a bit upset about the whole ...
Kolonialbauten und Strassen-Kost
... fuer die vielen Hutmacherlaeden. Der weltberuehmte Panamahut kommt uebrigens nicht aus Panama sondern wurde schon immer in Ecuador, naemlich zuallererst in Montecristi hergestellt. Die Bezeichnung Panamahut kam daher, dass Panama als Exportland fuer ...
blowin in the wind
... trip, dannng chicken and rice and cheap sweet goodies all day....yaa see you back in cali 20 lbs heavier...till then byyyyyeeeeee cuenca day 2 woooow so sketch man turns out to be sketch. shocker....so we arrive back to the hostel at the early hour of ...
Long Day
... was not Intersted to come and look at the Airplane after I told then that I only had Clothes and a Bicycle with me. I was told that Cuenca the old Ican City was only an 2 hour drive away by car and was advised to not drive my Cycle from the Airport up to ...
nastan ranade.. med en korkskruv
... med. vi hade ju planer at helt andra hall, men nar det visade sig att det var bade nationaldagsfirande och Fodelsedagsfirande av och i Cuenca, sa var det bara att hanga pa tillbaks. Darfor ar vi har nu. Igar kvall efter nagra ol sa skulle vi ga till ...
Cuenca, home of the Panama Hat
... in sight! Cuenca is also one of the centres of the Panama Hat industry. These hats are, in fact, made in Ecuador. The misleading name comes from the fact that they were imported to Europe from Panama and were made famous by the French engineer, ...
It´s ´Sex on the beeeaacch" not "Sex on the Bitch"
... says that it reminds her of a smaller town in Spain. Still, I managed to get poo pooed on by a pigeon. Two big cities in Ecuador have shat on me. But I´m not complaining. Our second night here we were enjoying a beer in the outdoor common area. A ...
Jan 14, 2012
Cuenca und Cuenca Umgäbig (Chordeleg, Cualaceo)
... gits also keis Foti ;-) Panamahut: diä gflochtnä Panamahüät chömed gaar nöd us Panama, sondern wärdet in Ecuador härgstellt, hauptsächlich in Cuenca und diä exportiered diä Hüät i anderi Länder... Diä Iiheimischä da findet, dass dä ...