Cuenca

Cuenca is a very nicely-kept city also in the south of Ecuador. It was my next stop after Loja, and I spent about three days there, admiring all the buildings, watching a local soccer game, and visiting museums, including one exhibit on the shrunken heads of the Shuar people in the Amazon. Very cool. Cuenca is also the cultural center of Ecuador, the home of panama hats and free hippie concerts in the plaza where Colombianas dance around and throw flower petals at the crowd in overly emotive gestures.


Cuenca corner, not too far from the modern art museum.


The top of Cuenca's cathedral, which was HUGE and gorgeous.