View over Cuenca
The new cathedral in Cuenca
Visit to a Panama hat store with our teacher Fausto (second from right, in the white jacket) and two other students.
Panama hats in production
Panama hats drying after being washed
Country style panama hats
Studying in our room in the homestay in Cuenca
Horseback riding south of Cuenca
Hills near Cuenca
Anne and her horse
Lunch with Maria and Fernando (our guide)
Anne and Maria
My horse and me
Cuy for lunch
Cuy (1 or 2 Ecuadorians normally eat a whole one - us tourists with delicate palettes split one between 5)
Salsa class
Maria (student) and Francisco (salsa teacher) dancing at La Mesa
La Mesa - the place to be for salsa on a Wednesday night
Salsa dancing in a crowded club
Maggie & Giddy
Anne holding ice on my forehead
Resting in bed
Minor damage from passing out
Constructing the pattern on the face of the guitar. The patterns are made by hand out of tiny pieces of wood (seen in the top right).
Luis Uyapuari, who has been making guitars by hand for 35 years.
Sam playing a $2,000 guitar. The design has beautiful wood and seashell inlaid all around the edge.
A charango - small traditional South American guitar made from the shell of an armadillo.
Hiking in Cajas national park
View from our walk in Cajas
Going off the beaten path
Cajas - lakes and mountains carved by receding glaciers
Anne touching the remains of two cactus flowers
Holding pieces of paper-like bark from a tree that sheds
Mag, Anne, me, Giddy (Mag and Giddy are kiwis - go New Zealand!)
Modelling
Hitching a ride back to Cuenca in the back of a pickup
Gualaceo fruit market
Before (at an animal market)...
...After (very common traditional food)
Maggie, Marie, Giddy, me, Anne at Cafe Eucalyptus
Our host family - Jose-Luis, Juan-Carlos, Manuel, Ruth - and us
Allison and me
