You never want to go out your front door without a camera in Cuenca, since you never know what you will trip across. For the next month or so, there will be many random pop-up parades and festivities, if past years are a guide. Today I crossed Parque de la Madre, enroute to our local […]
Independence Day, Cuenca 2015
Today is officially Independence Day in Cuenca, Ecuador, though the celebration has gone on for four days already. See our earlier post here and here for the start of the weekend. We started the day by taking the bus to Parque Paraiso, the largest public park in Cuenca, and one that we hesitate to admit […]
Day of Remembrance
Cuenca Independence Day weekend celebration continued today. There was a children’s puppet show at the base of the Escalinita steps next to CIDAP, and there were much more arts and crafts being displayed on closed city streets and plazas throughout the neighborhoods compared to prior years. We also attended a party for Día de los […]
Send In the Clowns
Halloween is not a big holiday in Cuenca. However, with more expats moving in and their kids grown up, the adults have gotten into the spirit of Halloween celebrations. This year, there were several Halloween parties held at local restaurants, as well as some private parties with people in costume. Evelyn went out earlier this […]
Art Expo Plus Outdoor Symphony
Saturday will officially kick off the Cuenca Independence celebrations. There are over 300 different events planned in town between now and Tuesday, the majority of which are free. Cuenca expects 100,000 visitors to come to town over the weekend, and this is in a city with a population of only 450,000, so things will almost […]
First Cuenca Art Walk
Last night was the first official Art Walk in Cuenca. We had these in California when we lived there, and it was always interesting to browse through the artist’s open studios. The California ones were open to any artist that wished to participate, and frankly some of the art was not very good… This Cuenca Art […]
Alberto Soriano Art Show
Alberto Soriano has been Evelyn’s painting instructor since we arrived in Ecuador. He is a well known painter, originally from Peru, who has exhibited throughout the world. Last month he and his wife were featured in an article in the local English language magazine, Zero Latitude (click here to read the article). He opened a […]
Argentina Summary
Street murals found during our Argentina trip We are now back home in Cuenca, Ecuador after traveling through Northern Argentina for the past month. The last six blog entries have covered our time in Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta, Iguazu Falls, and finally the Estancia Don Joaquin. I will close out the entries on this trip […]
Ambato Prepares for Carnaval Parade
We spent today exploring Ambato, seeing the city prepare for the big parades of the next two days. We started up by having a taxi take us to “that big Ecuador flag up on the hill.” We discovered that it is the “parque de la familia” and is an educational park intended to attract family, […]
Carnaval Ambato
Flambé dinner our first night in Ambato It took us 12 hours of driving yesterday to end up at Black Sheep Inn — an isolated vegetarian eco-lodge that had gotten rave reviews. Suffice it to say that our reviews were not as high, and that we left early to arrive in Ambato today… We have […]
