Aloha from Loja

Loja, Ecuador is a great, smallish city in the south.


This is a statue of Loja's founder in the plaza off the main plaza. Lojanos love their plazas, their colonial architecture, and statues of various heroes. Simon Bolivar must have a hundred statues, busts, and murals all over town.


After my bus in Peru was hijacked and I was threatened and robbed at gunpoint, which I am counting as a near-death experience, the only significant life change I have made is that I am eating more dessert more frequently and sooner. I am visiting a lot of pastelerias like this one in Loja. Ecuador makes a pretty good doughnut.


View of Loja. But it is actually rainier than this right now.