After booking our Galápagos cruise and making the final cash payment, we had to wait a few days before our flight to the Islands, so we decided to visit the nearby city of Cuenca. Cuenca is a beautiful colonial city in the southern mountains of Ecuador and is home to countless churches and Museums. Normally visiting museums and churches is not our thing, but due to some bad weather we decided to skip the hiking and visit a few of them this time. Since we just gave a huge chunk our cash to the cruise company, we opted to only visited the free places. It turns out the city had plenty of them and one even show cased the native cultures that practiced shrunken heads.....sorry no pictures allowed in the museum.
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| These ruins were in the middle of the city |
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| This parade in town was the beginning of the Carnaval celebrations. Local tradition for Carnaval is to spray everyone down with water or flour, or even eggs....no one is spared with tradition but we lucked out this time. |
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