Santa Lucia Cuenca
Antonio Borrero 8-44 y Mariscal Sucre Cuenca, Ecuador
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Cuenca: Being Lazy in a Lovely Colonial City
We arrived in Cuenca in the rain. One often hears that there are not four seasons near the Equator, only a wet season and a dry season. Well it's supposed to be the dry season, but we got lucky and visited this lovely city during an unusually rainy dry season. Actually, each and every guide we've had so far mentions how significantly the weather …
Happy Hour
So, lucky for us most of South America seems to be like Albert Square, everyone gets a service wash, so finding a laundry is easy. With the washing out of the way, we took a bus tour of the city. The rest of the day was spent up loading photos onto our blog, while drinking cocktails, happy hour starts at 2pm and finishes at 9pm.
Tonight we …
PANAMA HATS
Today we had planned a full day to explore Cuenca and we were back with our autoferry friends, a couple from Brisbane and a Polish man from Chicago. We were on foot for the first half of this tour and our first stop was a visit to one of the earliest houses in Cuenca which was a hotel. Beautifully restored it was now an art gallery housing local …
RELIGIOUS POP ART AND LLAMAS
Up. Argument with Edie on brushing her hair, teeth etc. Breakfast and then back on the bus. Our first visit was to a religious museum and it was remarkably interesting. This museum included a history of religious artifacts through the ages and particularly from the convent where the museum was based.
Nearly every catholic, wealthy family …
Chiva Express to Cuenca
Day 3 started at 5am, having got up at that time yesterday we were both getting used to it! We caught the Chiva Express train from Riobamba station and headed towards Alausi. The Chiva Express is a brightly coloured bus on rails to put it simply. We sat on the open roof top and as you might imagine it was pretty cold at that time of the morning, …



