In Cuenca, city of churches

Well, we arrived in Cuenca on Wednesday morning, the hostel owner came out and pick us up and another guest to the hostel. Steve and I decided to explore the many churches of Cuenca, what a site of churches you can see, as they said walk a few blocks you will come to a church. Some are so magnificient and some are small and old. Then we decide to explore some of the Incan site found in Cuenca. The first one was "Todos Santos" means "all Saints" with the limited spanish I know. It was more of an aquafur. The next site is also an aquafur with a mix of of ceremony and small Incan village with a terrace agriculture site. This site was build on a slope of a hill and the centre bank of Ecuador is next to it.

Banos the sulfur hot spring for some relaxation. The hot spring pool is not the same as in Costa Rica. They are just like a swimming pool fill with hot spring water. We spend about 2 hours there and we have dinner there. Before our dinner even got started we have our first black out. Eating in the dark was fun. But the lights came on in about half an hour. Steve had surf and turf and I had chicken.

Well Steve got sick today (gave him some Ecuadorian honey herbal tea, I think that took care of it), so we did not do much. He thinks it was one piece of shrimp from the surf and turf! We just walk around Cuenca and took more pictures and re-visited their main church. This time we went in and as usual their stain glass art work is beautiful.

We are back at the hostel now Steve is resting and feeling a little better. Tomorrow we are leaving for Otavalo, at 8:15 flight and two hours bus ride.

Till the next update..

Oh yeah - Steven finally got to have his Cuy - for those who do not know, it is Guinea Pig (yes the kind you all had as a kid) - it was very good!!