For our
disbelieve we found clean city!!!!
Too much
plastic packaging, stray dogs, scavenging birds and people who simply throw
garbage to the floor…this is what makes Ecuador look so dirty. And here in
Cuenca streets are just so clean. Hard to believe someone cares about cleaning.
All in
general we were pleased about the way how city works. Tourist office workers
finally spoke English and gave us appropriate tips and directions. And so we
took day to visit highlights of Cuenca city. Flower market, food market, Panama
hat factory, several museums and outdoor historical sites. In one of the
museums Nuno got lesson of history of Canaris and Incas and Spanish conquestors.
How Incas wanted to get rid of Canaris so Canaris made pact with Spanish to
eliminate Incas. Once Incas were eliminated Spanish killed Canaris. Just as we
use to say in Slovakia: “Where 2 fight, 3rd is the winner.” In
Pumamungo historical site we finally saw LAMAS from near distance!!!! Lamas,
lamas, lamas :D None of them spit on us but they were spitting on each other :D
:D Lamas :D For the end of city tour we hop on bus which took us to view point.
And there we could “admire” whole Cuenca from above.
Early morning
bus took us to Cajas national park. Arriving at 7.25am to the park we had to
wait for workers to arrive just because park opens at 8am. Nevermind. So we sat
on cold concrete path and watched birds hopping around. Guard who looked more
as prison than park guard was super impolite and kept starring at us as we were
some tiffs. Maybe we wanted to still a bit of water from lagoons or capture
birds :D Anyway, workers finally arrived
and we could head on our way. With lack of proper markings and broken signs we got
lost twice, well only twice. At first in forestry area and second time
waterfall capture our attention and we kept walking on the path upstream. After
some time we realized there was nowhere to go. We looked and looked and
couldn´t see any path. Eventually we spot people walking far away down near
lagoon. On the path we took, there were 29 points to see. From 29 we saw only 3
boards and rest were lonely broken sticks. Great way, how to keep visitors
save! Park itself is beautiful, hills, mountains, streams, waterfalls and
lagoons everywhere you look. It was impressive 5 hours of walk.
On the way back to city we got a ride thank to
Argentinean couple, who were hitch hiking. It took 3 cars and bus to get us back to
city J exciting day J … nice time in Cuenca.
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