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Cuenca Slideshow
Cuenca
Travel Blogs from Cuenca, Ecuador
In Cuenca
... with her 3 year old daughter and her younger brother who is probably in his mid 20s. Sonia is a biochemist at the University of Cuenca, and she studies natural plants. I get my own bedroom, three meals a day with the family, and daily laundry. It´s ...
Cuenca and Cajas
... us about the flora and fauna. It was a really interesting day though and good to get back into the countryside. Our stay in Ecuador was nearly at an end but before we were to make the journey into Peru we had one final destination - the little town of ...
Cranky in Cuenca
... into Ecuador (the novelty is definitely wearing thin now!) we eventually arrived into the little city of Cuenca. Unfortunately our first impressions of Ecuador were slightly marred by the discovery on arrival that some scoundrel had rooted through James' ...
Cuenca
... hi.. But it was actually fun. I met 2 other Swiss, 1 German, 1 Austrian, 1 Irish and 1 Dutch. All travelling in Ecuador since quiet a while... and with useful tips for me. On Saturday I walked through Cuenca together with Marc (D) and Isabella (A). ...
Cuenca
... journeys and travelling! Volley ball and beach side cocktails being the order of the day! We crossed the border into Ecuador saddened that it was our last of 19 border crosings but we do not think we will miss interacting ...
Mad hatter in the attic
... semi-private, we leave tomorrow and head for the beach in Peru where we camp for 3 nights, Peru is not supposed to be as luxurious as Ecuador and the food not as good, we have been divided into groups and will each have a day to cook for 28 people, I am ...
Collonial Jewel Of The South
... colonial jewel hidden in the South of Ecuador. Bit Of Pub Quiz general Knowledge for those at home: Any self-respecting Ecuador traveler knows, Panama hats are not made in Panama, they are made in Ecuador! Of course I couldn´t resist getting ...
more walking around
so, i woke up this morning to rain....not fun. i was planning on going hiking today, but i moved that to tomorrow instead. i walked around forever trying to find a nice coffee shop to take in the city. and hour later i finally had ...
The Shrunken Heads
... became more of a lucrative business venture as tourists and collectors discovered how cute the little things were. Up until Peru and Ecuador banned the trade of human heads around 1940, there was a booming business going on as the Shuar traded heads for ...
Cuenca, ou la plus jolie ville d'Equateur
... nous confirme que nous sommes a des kilometres de la ou nous voulions arriver mais que neanmoins un bus en direction de Cuenca devrait passer bientot. Heureux de pouvoir profiter de son petit chauffage, nous nous abstinons de l'insulter et ...
Cuenca-la magnifique
... rythme de ses habitants. Du moins c'est ce que nous aimons croire. Nous avons aussi appris qu’il vallait mieux à Cuenca ne pas acheter notre nourriture dans les petits marchés publics, parce qu’ils gonflent les prix pour les ...
Cuenca
Hi All, Have spent the last few days in Cuenca, the 3rd largest city in Ecuador and a UNESCO world heritage site. We have been staying at the Hotel Milan, and this is the most expensive place we have stayed so far. However for the extortionate price of ...
Cuenca
They say that Cuenca is the most beautiful city in Ecuador, so we stopped by. We stayed there for 3 days: The first day (saturday) we walked around the city (yes it is nice, but it´s not a big attraction). The second day we wanted to go to the ...
And on to Euador
... to have rivalled Cusco. The colonial buildings are handsome though, and I felt that it probably deserved its reputation as Ecuador's prettiest city. As time was running short we limited our activities in Cuenca to a visit to the Museo Banco Central, ...
Back to civilization again
... streets, towering cathedrals, and marble and whitewashed buildings give it a colonial air like nowhere else we´d been to in Ecuador and we had a great day exploring with the most beautiful blue skies! Anyway after spending the day wandering around I ...
Cuenca,,,Ohhhhh, Cuenca....
... , otherwise known plainly as "Cuenca", slip by, unexplored, on my previous trip, now, is beyond me!!!! Cuenca, arguably, Ecuador's most seductive and beautiful colonial city, has not disappointed.....A classic example of a planned Renaissance town in ...
Climbing at Laguna de Busa
... ; What a fiasco.. first off, the website Monodedo.com is a really great resource for climbing information in Ecuador and Colombia, but man... sometimes they do not know their shit. After New Year´s Eve our new Colombian friends ...
A Little Pit-Stop
... was that I'd be spending more time in Cuenca than I thought. Beginning with this week, and lasting for several weeks after, Ecuador started a new round of talks with the US over a free trade agreement. The community was split on their reactions, but ...
cobblestones and bras
... his own fate. Along Calle Larga, near my $5/night hostal, was a little cafe owned by a gentleman who recently returned to Ecuador after spending most of his life in New York. It's a nice reprieve from having to speak Spanish whenever I run into ...
El Cajas
... . Well, if you havent heard of El Cajas before it is famous for its many sparkling lakes and lagunas set in the high paramo of Ecuador...well that plus always being cold and rainy. It was a good thing that I started at such a high point because at 4000 ...
Fun in the Amazon
... te laten savoureren landde men 7 uur later dan gepland. Heerlijke lui, die van Iberia. Momenteel toeven we in Cuenca, morgen verder naar Guayaquil -indien landverschuivingen de wegen niet blokkeren, het regent hier namelijk oude wijven- en dan ...
Cuenca
... sind die Busfahrer hier eher leicht crazy...manchmal sogar so, dass der kleine Junge vor uns gleich 6x kotzen muss...:-( Cuenca ist wieder eine sehr schoene Stadt und zaehlt ebenfalls zum UNESCO Weltkulturerbe. Das Beste ist aber, dass es hier riiiiesige ...
snap, crackle and pop.... and shake..
... . Then i started a two hour search for a disposible camera, it brought me to every market, pharmacy, camera shop and bazaar in Cuenca.. All useless to me! Museum of Modern art I wandered west on gran colombia cause thats what the guide book said to do and ...
Cuenca
After a 10 hour truck journey we made it to Cuenca in the southern highlands. Cuenca is a colonial town famous for being the home of Panama hats (no, they did not originate in Panama!). We had a relaxing day wandering around the old town with our ...
City of culture on route to Peru
Off to our next stop, Cuenca, known as the cultural capital of Ecuador and recommended as a good place to replace my digi camera. Other travellers had described the city as almost European in its style and the way a lot of the people dressed, making the ...
Cant decide if I love it or hate it.
... safe, as is the rest of the city. The streets are lined with ice cream parlors, bakeries, and pie shops. Cuenca is a far more stylish city than Quito, but sprinkled in with the fashonistas is a fair amount of indiginous women in traditional ...
The beautiful colonial city of Cuenca
... We spend only 2 nights here, visited a place where they manufacture "panama hats", who aren't from Panama at all but from Ecuador. Just like the French fries mistake haha ;) They got their name because many workers in the panama canal wore these. It was ...
Cuenca
... levels in the valleys, and fast as the bus was going now that the driver knew we were behind schedule. In Cuenca, a large colonial city - 3rd city of Ecuador, we stayed in the lovely Hostal Maconda. We met Jason and Kate from Oxford here, and whom we ...