Cuenca Travel Blogs - Page 3

It's my birthday! Boy was I surprised when all of Cuenca filled the streets en masse with fireworks and sweet stalls everywhere. All this for me! Well, actually there might have been Corpus Christi celebrations going on but I didn't care, as long as everyone was celebrating!We went out for a nice d…

Ahh yes time to do some more eating and some great shopping.  We walked everywhere in the square in Cuenca.  Mejor Amigo even got his shoes shined by a local nice young man.  All he wanted was a quarter, but we gave him a dollar.  We bought many gifts for our family members …

Sunday morning I went again to the internet place as it was rainy and grey, plus everything cultural was closed.  I decided to free up some room on my memory card and saved all the pictures onto the rented computers desktop, erasing them off the camera in the process.  Unfortunately, the …

The southern city of Cuenca was our last destination in Ecuador - 'our' now being Sam, Ryan, Liz, Ruth and myself. Cuenca is the third-largest city in Ecuador and is considered relatively independent from the rest of the country because it only recently became accessible by paved road.To get from B…

We arrived in Cuenca last night. After trying to pronounce it at the bus station in Banos, and finding out it is actually said ¨Kwenka¨ we finally hit the road for the 8 hour journey! The bus rides aren´t as bad as we had thought, we have gotten used to them now and cranking up the MP3 player al…

Cuenca is a beautiful city towards the south of Ecuador. Unfortunitely though the whole town seems to shut down on Sundays. All musuems and majority of shops and restuarants are closed for the day. If you get the chance to plan when you arrive I would avoid Sundays there unless you want to do nothi…

Winter 2009, my girlfriend Hilary and I will be traveling through Ecuador and Peru. We haven't made any concrete plans, and we are traveling on an extremely limited budget. Our Journey will begin in Quito where we will be meeting up with her friends who have been living in the city for a few months.

Meinen schoenen 9 1/2 Tage im wundervollen Cuenca!

19-7-2009 Galapagos - Guayaquil - Cuenca Vandaag een reisdag. Eerst de trip van een uur naar de luchthaven (die weg heb ik nu ook al tig keer gezien) en daarna de bus naar Cuenca. Ik heb besloten niet naar Guayaquil te gaan. Het enige interessante leek mij daar de nieuw aangelegde boulevard, maarj…

Nice city, quite European in style. Visited the Museum of Modern Art, ate Guinea Pig for lunch (not impressed to be honest), the museum in the Central Bank containing information about the different groups of indigenous Ecuadorians some shrunken heads and Inca ruins out the back. Next day (my…

Here you can join us on our motorcykle tour from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (south america). We start our journey May 27, 2006 and we will be on the road for about a year! Read our complete story at our homepage: www.tobias-ingeborg.com

Beautiful country that can't be missed. Didn't even get to the coast but had a blast. Places Visited: Guayaquil, Cuenca, Riobamba, Banos, Quito, Otavalo

Oh Cuenca, how beautiful you are. Cuenca was like an oasis after the terrible border crossing we had. So happy to be in Ecuador! Cuenca is the most unique city that we have been to on this Latin America tour 2007 and the only place we could both see ourselves living in for a long period of time. Th…

Het was een mooie dag in Alausi, zo ´s ochtends tot een uur of tien. Wij lekker in de zon ontbeten en vroeg naar het station om kaartjes te kopen voor de treinrit naar Devils nose. Helaas.. er was (nog steeds) een piepklein onderdeeltje kapot. *Advertorial* Dat doet de NS toch beter!  *eind…

Hello all,I have been in Cuenca since Sunday and I love it. The city is home to about half a million people, but you would never know it. Cuenca is by far the cleanest city in this country, much thanks to the people sweeping up people´s litter constantly. It is a very historic town with cobble…