Having lived in Cuenca and shopped at mercados weekly for the past two years, I wasn’t sure about wanting to take a tour of a Medellin mercado. However, we have loved most of the walking tours we have taken in various cities, and the reviews were good, so we decided to take the “Exotic Fruits […]
Medellin Festival of Lights
Cuenca has a few lights during Christmas on Plaza Otorongo and along the Rio Tomebamba. All those lights combined would not total as much as any single smaller park in Medellin — and every park of any size seems to be lit up! We took a “Festival of Lights” tour tonight to see the lights […]
Bogotá 2 – City Highlights
We left Bogotá this morning, enroute to Medellin. Yesterday, I posted about the street art of the city. Today, I will talk about the rest of our trip. Much of the time here has had overcast skies with occasional drizzle — never enough to pull out the umbrella, but enough to keep it cold. Late […]
Bogotá – Welcome To Colombia
We are just finishing up our four days in Bogatá, Colombia. It has been common to hear a passerby, or even a taxi yell out his window “Welcome to Colombia!” It is clear that gringos are wanted here. The highlight of the city was the three hour Graffiti Tour, a free (supported by tips) walking […]
Shuar Tour Plus Car Breakdown (Secúa)
On our final full day in the Secúa area, Evelyn wanted to get more experience with the Shuar community (who were known for their process for shrinking heads as recently as the 1950’s), so Gabriel arranged for a more in-depth visit with another family. This family was far more remote than the one we visited […]
Turn Left At The Cow (Puyo)
On the fifth day of our road trip to the Amazon (aka Oriente), we decided to take an unplanned side trip to Puyo, about a two hour drive north of Sucúa, where we spent the first few days. We had wanted to visit the monkey refuge known as Fundación Los Monos Selva y Vida a […]
Lost In The Jungle (Sucúa)
Last week we spent a few days in the Amazon, called the Oriente by Ecuadorians. We had wanted a little time in warmer weather (Cuenca has been pretty cold all of August), so when a local tour operator said he wanted to do an exploratory trip and was looking for two people to join him, […]
Cañar Mercado and Biblián Church
After going to the Cañar animal market, we went into town to the main mercado for some people watching. According to Alberto (our driver for the day), most of the younger generation left the city to find work in the United States or Spain, so you mostly find older Cañari people in this town of 225,000. On Sundays, Cañar […]
Argentina Gallery Added
We have finally completed editing the photos from our trip to Argentina a couple months ago, and have added them to our photo gallery. You can access this, and other trip photos by pressing the “Travel” menu on the top of this screen, then choosing the “Argentina” tab on the screen that comes up. Or […]
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 […]
