Cuenca

  Cuenca, Ecuador
Friday, November 18, 2005

Cuenca photos





Nice cathedral and hanging out on Talbot st Cuenca. posted by conor at 5:00 PM 1 comments  
Saturday, November 19, 2005 Photos




Crazy Road from Riobamba to Baņos, these canīt really show how far the drop is. posted by conor at 6:42 PM 0 comments  
Cuenca at night 19th November
This is quite a nice town.
The hostel has a lovely view of the cathedral.
The architecture is quite good which is not typical for equador.
The most common roofing material in equador is corrigated iron and whenever anyone builds anything they like to leave the option open to build another story. This means that most building have metal bit sticking up to alow for the next story when they get around to it. This creates the typical equadorian unfinished style of arcitecture. Here is quite different though. We went to quite a snobby bar last night. A drunk guy claiming to be an off duty police officer kept showing us his id and insisting that we buy him a drink. We just fained ignorance of the language and lost him as soon as possible. So I had quite a plesent lie on this morning and am off to see more of the town. posted by conor at 10:51 AM 0 comments  
Friday, November 18, 2005 Cuenca 18th of November Cuenca,
I got the bus back to Riobamba yesterday.
Some other people were getting the train that I was already on.
I stayed the night there.
Max who continued to Cuenca last night had quite an eventfull time being blocked by roadblocks set up by protesters and had to hitch to the nearest town to stay the night.
I arrived today after a much less eventfull 5 and a half hour bus journey.
Cuenca seems really nice. Alot more wealthy and european in character.