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Angels and Demons Halloween revisited

Angels and Demons Halloween revisited

    Ecuador doesn't celebrate Halloween but they have New Year's Eve to take Halloween's place. Today there are bad spirits about. They are atop cars, seated in chairs in retail stores, looking down from balconies, slumped on curbs and grouped near churches....

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Sunrise Cafe Cuenca ex-pat hangout

Sunrise Cafe Cuenca ex-pat hangout

    You go down Luis Cordero all the way to Calle Larga, make a right, go mas y meno two blocks and look right, and you are at the Sunrise Cafe Cuenca. The Sunrise Cafe Cuenca is a hangout for ex-pats. It is a comfortable mom and pop place with good prices,...

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Panama Hat from Ecuador a traditional Ecuadorian craft

Panama Hat from Ecuador a traditional Ecuadorian craft

    Panama hats have oddly enough always been made in Ecuador. From the 1600's, the weaving of hats out of the leaves of the toquilla palm has been done, at it's finest level ,on the western coast of Ecuador. These best hats are called Montecristo's and are...

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Adams family so closed up I can't get in

Adams family so closed up I can't get in

    Walking, you see odd stuff. This Museo and Cafe is on a walkway, just down from one of the tortuous staircases that lead you from Cuenca's Historical District to the Tomebomba river. The first time I tried to visit this curiosity, its front door was...

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Christmas Parade All day affair

Christmas Parade All day affair

    The Christmas Parade on December 24th is the full Monte. It is an all day affair with the parade route being prepared at seven in the morning and the end of the parade passing Calderone Park at seven in the evening. It is music, floats, dancers, walkers,...

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Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again

Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again

    There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven't met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of...

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Orchids Gualaceo, Ecuador

Orchids Gualaceo, Ecuador

    Within thirty minutes of Cuenca, right on the highway not far from Gualaceo, is an orchid farm that grows, cross breeds, and sells orchids worldwide to collectors and aficionados. Ecuador is home to thousands of varieties of orchids and Ecuagenera is a...

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Incan Code Pumapungo Museum-Cuenca

Incan Code Pumapungo Museum-Cuenca

    Walking through the Museum, and the grounds below, gives footnotes of the past. All that is left of the past here are rock walls of homes and stone walls built to terrace land so crops could be grown on hillsides. The soil is deep, dark, rich, and, with...

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New Cathedral Blues stepping in

New Cathedral Blues stepping in

    The domes of the New Cathedral can be seen from most high ground in Cuenca. The New Cathedral was built in the last hundred years but still qualifies to be called new. The Old Cathedral, on the other side of Parque Calderone, is smaller, less ambitious,...

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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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River Watching Rio Tomebamba - Cuenca, Ecuador

River Watching Rio Tomebamba - Cuenca, Ecuador

    Our dad liked fishing. His dad liked fishing. So, sons and grandsons like fishing too. The Rio Tomebamba bubbles up memories of trout streams in New Mexico, the Pecos and Jemez in particular. It also reminds me of the Conejos River in southern Colorado,...

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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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