Cuenca, Ecuador - 9/15/10
While in Cuenca we stayed at the Kookaburra. Besides having two rooms to rent, they also have a restaurant. The green door on the left is the entrance to the restaurant. The middle section is window; shutters cover them when the restaurant is closed. The door on the right is the one guests staying at the Kookaburra use.
A half block west, sort of to the side of the Inmaculada Church (also known as Catedral Nueva - in the background), you’ll find the Cuenca flower market, where women sell locally grown flowers from about a dozen stands. The square is directly in front of Santuario Marinano. The entrance to La Carmen de la Asunción convent is there as well: the nuns sell religious items through a special window.
A half block west, sort of to the side of the Inmaculada Church (also known as Catedral Nueva - in the background), you’ll find the Cuenca flower market, where women sell locally grown flowers from about a dozen stands. The square is directly in front of Santuario Marinano. The entrance to La Carmen de la Asunción convent is there as well: the nuns sell religious items through a special window.
This is a picture taken down at the river looking back up the stairs we had just come down. That day there must have been a high school PE class as there were kids running up and then down these stairs, along the river to another set of stairs then up and down those and back. We saw them several times and it made our old bones tired just watching them.