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Travel stories from Cuenca

Collection of 15 travel stories from Cuenca, Ecuador. Written by your friends on the road.

Picture from story Living in Cuenca

Living in Cuenca
2009-10-16, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: roylin

Cuenca is a large colonial city in Ecuador in the southern Andes Mountains. The population is around 750,000 people. Linda and I flew to Cuenca via Quito on October 16th 2009. We wanted to investiga...

 
Picture from story No more chicken .......

No more chicken .......
2007-03-12, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: rossycaz

After our longest bus journey to-date (6 hours) last Friday, we´ve arrived in Cuenca, Ecuador´s 3rd largest city. And a very nice place it is too - the old town at least. It´s all cobbled streets and ...

 
Picture from story Cuenca, and finally dry!

Cuenca, and finally dry!
2007-02-20, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

These are my last days in Cuenca. I leave on Friday (I’m actually going to play hooky from school…) to head down to the coast of Ecuador for a few days. It should be nice… some warm weather and the ...

 
Picture from story Cuenca... and the pictures seem to work

Cuenca... and the pictures seem to work
2007-02-16, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

Well, I'm a little more successful this afternoon with the pictures. Here are some from my friends little housewarming party. The whole town must have known, since there was a huge fireworks display...

 
Picture from story Cuenca... and 1/3 thru the trip

Cuenca... and 1/3 thru the trip
2007-02-15, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

Another week down…and more adventures to be had. Cuenca has been really good to me. And I think it will be sad to leave this town. This is the first time that I have traveled someplace and stayed fo...

 
Picture from story A few more photos

A few more photos
2007-02-08, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

yesterday, after an hour and a half of trying to load the four photos, i gave up. today, though, i finally found a place with a decent connection. so here are a few more photos from the weekend, and...

 
Picture from story Cuenca... still

Cuenca... still
2007-02-07, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

All is well in Cuenca… and the spanish is… well still coming along. I’ve settled into a routine here in town. First, see what the protesters are up to first thing on the way to school (they’re back...

 
Picture from story Cuenca... one week in

Cuenca... one week in
2007-02-02, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

One week of spanish classes down. What in the world. Why am I not fluent yet? Oh well. I still have three weeks of intensive classes to go. That is the good news, and next week we move onto the p...

 
Picture from story Cuenca...

Cuenca...
2007-01-28, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: jess

So Cuenca is beautiful and nice. There are a few pictures to show. So far, since it is sunday, i haven't done much. everybody else is in church, although there have been a couple of very small cute...

 
Picture from story Getting Jiggy With It

Getting Jiggy With It
2006-09-07, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: sauntering

Remind me to thank the Spanish colonizers for replacing those ratty Inca structures with ornate colonial-style architecture. Cuenca is a charming little town, aptly hoisted between four flowing rivers...

 
Picture from story Cajas National Park...NOT

Cajas National Park...NOT
2006-07-11, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: mishiva

Staying put was now out style so we decided to wake up early and brave the cold at Cajas National Park; a high mountain range with hundreds of lagoons and lakes. Running late to catch the early mor...

 
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Little Cuenca
2006-07-10, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: mishiva

Finally getting an opportunity to relax, the little town of Cuenca welcomed us with a fresh change of quaintness and peace. Surrounded by the Southern Highlands covered in green, the town boasts a new...

 
Picture from story Traveling to the South

Traveling to the South
2006-05-15, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: brooksyo

Hey guys, so my original plans were to keep you all in suspense until I came back to the U.S. But I couldn't be that mean. I'm in the intellectual capital of Ecuador, Cuenca. It's home to the best ...

 
Picture from story Ecological tour through Cajas National Park

Ecological tour through Cajas National Park
2005-11-20, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: incaqueen

The view from my window during the bus journey from Loja to Cuenca is like a panoramic moving postcard for 5 hours, non-stop. Winding round the mountains and up and down the valleys gave me ample tim...

 
Picture from story We travelled Peru and no sign of Paddington Bear!

We travelled Peru and no sign of Paddington Bear!
2005-03-09, Cuenca, Ecuador. By: snutbrown

Hold onto your hats, this could be another long one! It turned out that Chiclayo wasn´t about ruins and tombs but about museums about them so that made a bit of a change! There were quite a few museum...

 


 
 

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