Cuenca - Blogabond

Heading south to Peru, with a stopover for a day in Cuenca. Not much time to explore the surrounding area, but enjoying the beautiful architecture and other sights around town. Learned from one of the locals at a gear shop that this is thought to be the rockclimbing center of Ecuador - lots of good cragging nearby - so I'll have to return to give that a try.

Questions: Why are the movies in long-distance buses always the ones, usually from the US, that are nonstop violence? In the restaurant where the bus stopped for lunch, why are posters of Jesus posted next to those of seductive women advertising for beer? Why is the bullfighting event in Quito named "Jesus del Gran Poder" (Jesus of the Great Power)?

written by

cjones on December 3, 2007 from Cuenca, Ecuador

from the travel blog: so-journ

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