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Bus Crash Taking out a retail shop

Bus Crash Taking out a retail shop

    The last accident covered in Scott Treks was a rollover in Montevideo, Uruguay on the Rambla. In this case, in the Cuenca Historical District, by the time I walk to see what the crowd is about, the scene is just a crashed blue bus with its front end...

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Flower Market A big export for Ecuador

Flower Market A big export for Ecuador

    You can buy flowers all over Cuenca, but one of the best places to buy is at a small flower market in front of the Sanctuario Mariano, across from the New Cathedral, down the street from Parque Calderone. Daily, under white canvas tents, ladies and men...

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Soprano sax soloist Sue Terry

Soprano sax soloist Sue Terry

    This evening we are treated by an American jazz musician who has a home in Cuenca. She slips into the Jazz Society club with her instrument in its case, takes a seat and listens to the band, puts her horn together, finds a reed, and joins the boys for...

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Ecuadorian Zones differences in style, not substance

Ecuadorian Zones differences in style, not substance

    The Museo Pumapungo's second floor features exhibits on Ecuador's geographical zones. In one room is Amazon man with a blowgun who welcomes you into his jungle. Amazonian's dress light and move silent as the animals they pursue. They live in thatched...

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Karana – House of Chocolate Equadorian export

Karana – House of Chocolate Equadorian export

    Chocolate is a money maker for Ecuador. Karana is a Cuenca chocolate shop that uses only the best chocolate ( arriba) and makes their own delights in a kitchen in the back of their showroom. This business is located at the intersection of Guayas and...

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Modern Art Cuenca, Ecuador

Modern Art Cuenca, Ecuador

    Modern art is an oxymoron. When you go to galleries and see " modern " art you are seeing art done by masters whose works have critical interest and investors fretting over value. Modern Art in this gallery, this month, is Eduardo Sola Franco, an...

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Washing Clothes At the Tomebamba River Wednesday morning

Washing Clothes At the Tomebamba River Wednesday morning

    Humans wear clothes. Some wear more, some less. Some are expensive, glamorous with designer touches straight from the runway, some are little better than rags. This morning, in the Rio Tomebamba River, a family washes their clothes and bedding. Two...

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Paper Thin Spirits

Paper Thin Spirits

    Cartegena, Columbia is a spirit place even if I hate its heat, humidity, street vendors, and dirty streets. There are spirits in that Old City behind huge locked doors, in notches cut into stone walls that held big guns aimed at pirate ships coming for...

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Ronald McDonald For President 2016

Ronald McDonald For President 2016

    Ronald doesn't mind getting photographed. Just five minutes ago, two kids sat next to the icon eating fries and sipping Coca Cola. How is it that a clown can become the most famous person in the world? Ronald's only resume is red hair, crazy colored...

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New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night

New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night

    Ecuador has a new changing young generation. A still small number of its children have adopted the music, talk, style of other big city children around the world. There is graffiti in Cuenca. You see some tattoos, some ear piercings and dyed hair, torn...

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Mirador De Turi To Mirador de Turi and home

Mirador De Turi To Mirador de Turi and home

    At the top of the hill are panoramic views. Cuenca, Ecuador has expanded as far north and south as you can see, stopped only by the Cajas National Reserve on one end and more mountains on the other. Red tile roofs and reddish bricks look like a bloody...

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