Doubledecker bus tour of the city started off the morning. It was pretty cool to get our bearings and see some of the highlights of the city. All around town we went hearing the history of this place and that. Then, we were taken up to the old Incan holy ground where they would preform their sacred sun ceremony. It was up on a big hill over looking the town. Super gorgeous. I love looking over these cities. It is much more satisfying after climbing a 500 ft ladder or 800 stairs though. But, a bus will do just fine. Being the tall Gringo's that we are, we had to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and doge tree branches, powerlines, and bridges.
That quote was a shout out to my main sister. Miss you!
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| Cuenca From The Hill |
In the main square we went to "the old cathedral" and "the new cathedral." The old one had some really neat stuff that they were restoring and some crazy passageways that we wanted to explore, but were too chicken too. The new one was big and grand and reminded me of the cathedrals of Italy. Fun fact: when the new cathedral was being remodeled in 1880 it was planed to be the largest in South America. However, the dude who made up the plans made a slight miscalculation and the structure could not hold the weight of the planned domes.... Sssssssooooo, they had to "settle" for these small one. Still amazing, still beautiful!
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| The New Cathedral |
Cuenca has a bomb flower market. On the weekends it is supposed to be huge, but on a Wednesday it was only a full court yard of wonderful, beautiful, fantastic flowers. It was absolutely spectacular!
Went to the open market. WOW! So many different fruits, veggies, taters, beans, and meat. Naturally we bought every fruit possible and had a fruit tasting!
Bananas - Three different varieties
Avacados - More of a nutty flavor than "American" avacado
Mango - Didn't taste like mango, but still yummy
Tangerene - Maxed out prior to this one
Papaya - Maxed out prior to this one too
Tree Tomato - Looks like a tomato when peeled. Tastes sweet, sour, and a little basil like
Zapote (brown/green with dingle berry on top)- Not bad, not good. Just bland.
Pepino (white with purple stretch marks) - Combo between a cucumber and a honeydew melon
Pitanaya (yellow spikey dude) - Not much flavor but has the texture of kiwi flesh.
Granadilla (yellow with dingle berry on top) - Citrusy, sweet flavor with crunchy seeds. Ssssooo GOOD!
Chirimoya (goofy looking artichoke) - Pearish flavor, mango texture. Sweet like candy. Could eat this
every day!
To add to our fruit feast we also had pastries and vino too. Delicious!
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| Our Personal Fruit Tasting |
The panama hat museum was a quick visit but cool. They had hats ranging from $14 to $400.
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| Panama Hats |
The medical museum was RAD! Both Alicia and I had such an awesome time nerding out! All kinds of cool things like 1840's autoclaves, hand crank centrifuges, antique medical equipment of all kinds, and drugs drugs drugs. Awesome! I think we spent a good two hours there. Side note: They had a few mummified children, fetuses, and a variety of skulls. No pictures to follow of the gross things.
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| Drugs Drugs Drugs |
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| 1910 Birthing Chair |
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| Drugs Drugs Drugs |
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