My sweetheart and wife's (the same person!) birthday!
Another exciting day of sightseeing and learning about Cuenca, Ecuador!
We ate breakfast in our hostal then met Gerard Tretton at the local tour bus company, in the Cuenca square, for a tour of the city. In all the years Gerard has been here, he has never been on the tour so we are very honored that he chose to go with us. The tour lasted about an hour and a half and was very informative; I recommend it to anyone visiting Cuenca.
We then headed towards Caja (pronounced "ka ha") National Park. The drive was fabulous and the tour guide was very knowledgeable! We stopped and ate at Hosteria Dos Chorreras restaurant; they have their own fish farm; we saw some small trout swimming in a pool as we entered the restaurant. The trout was delicious!
We then went on up the mountain to the park, at an elevation of 13,667 feet! We walked to the edge of a canyon with lakes below; we felt the effects of the high altitude and the drop in temperature from lower elevations. Pictures, videos (I took both) or words cannot describe the scenery going, there, or coming back! We hope to experience it again!
When we got back, we attended the ex-pat get together and met some new people.
Gerard told me I need to post some pics with this blog; I told him I don't even know how to enhance it, much less add pics! We're trying to take lots of pics with two digital and one video cameras so we should have plenty to post, when I, or Jess Moody, figures out how to do it! Of course, I must first get them downloaded (or is it uploaded?) from the cameras!
And now, to bed! We don't have any excursions scheduled for tomorrow but we do hope to visit a Panama Hat museum (did you know, they actually are manufactured here in Cuenca and exported?) The manufacturing plant is out near the airport but we probably won't have time to go there; the museum is close by.
Hasta Luego!
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