Today we explore Cuenca, the 3rd largest city in Ecuador. Our hotel is a beautifully restored hacienda located right in old town, the UNESCO world heritage cite. Setting off on foot, we explored the town square and markets. No super markets for these Ecuadoreans! It was quite interesting, full of sights, sounds, and smells.
Our guide surprised us with double decker bus city tour. That was really cool. Quite a different perspective from that upper deck of the bus.
After a shopping opportunity, in true OAT fashion, we sped off out of town to visit an orchid farm, (probably will not be buying one of these to take home...) a number of stops through the day for more Ecuadorean skilled handicraft to enrich our shopping opportunities ...
Check out these visuals...
Traditional dress worn by Ecuadorean women. There are some variation to the hats from tribe to tribe. But basically, any color and any pattern and any number of layers works!
Growing orchids .... Thousands of orchids...
This One actually smells like chocolate...milk chocolate ...
Our last stop at the Museo del la Makana. Our guide generously conducted a lottery to win two scarves...who da thot .....
Tomorrow we get some exercise, A hike in the national park and, probably, more shopping stops on way back into town... Tune in tomorrow to find out...
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