Scott’s Adventures in Ecuador
Pictures from the Past Exhibit in Parque Calderone, Dec 2015
Cuenca is a World Heritage City. World Heritage cities possess geographical, cultural, artistic, archeological, and architectural wonders which UNESCO believes are worth protecting. In Parque Calderone, these photographs were taken between 1890-1930....
Modern Art Cuenca, Ecuador
Modern art is an oxymoron. When you go to galleries and see " modern " art you are seeing art done by masters whose works have critical interest and investors fretting over value. Modern Art in this gallery, this month, is Eduardo Sola Franco, an...
Steps Revisited
Plaza Otorongo is a popular meeting place. It is at the bottom of a huge hill near the Tomebamba river and one way to enter and leave the plaza is ascending or descending a long and steep stairway. Stairs are grouped in sections with five steps and a...
Washing Clothes At the Tomebamba River Wednesday morning
Humans wear clothes. Some wear more, some less. Some are expensive, glamorous with designer touches straight from the runway, some are little better than rags. This morning, in the Rio Tomebamba River, a family washes their clothes and bedding. Two...
Paper Thin Spirits
Cartegena, Columbia is a spirit place even if I hate its heat, humidity, street vendors, and dirty streets. There are spirits in that Old City behind huge locked doors, in notches cut into stone walls that held big guns aimed at pirate ships coming for...
Performance Art Unintended Consequences
By the New Cathedral, on a cloudy afternoon, these performers stand motionless. Then, they move and beckon to a little girl to pose for a photo with them with her mom. After the photo, they blow them a parting kiss and return to their rigid pose. They...
Ronald McDonald For President 2016
Ronald doesn't mind getting photographed. Just five minutes ago, two kids sat next to the icon eating fries and sipping Coca Cola. How is it that a clown can become the most famous person in the world? Ronald's only resume is red hair, crazy colored...
New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night
Ecuador has a new changing young generation. A still small number of its children have adopted the music, talk, style of other big city children around the world. There is graffiti in Cuenca. You see some tattoos, some ear piercings and dyed hair, torn...
Mirador De Turi To Mirador de Turi and home
At the top of the hill are panoramic views. Cuenca, Ecuador has expanded as far north and south as you can see, stopped only by the Cajas National Reserve on one end and more mountains on the other. Red tile roofs and reddish bricks look like a bloody...
Cuenca City Tour On the Bus
Up top, on our double decker bus, you have wind and sun, but, on this trip, you can't stand up because low hanging electric wires will take off your neck. Our guide reminds us to watch for low hanging wires, watch the tree on your right, don't stand too...
Jazz Society of Ecuador LaVina restaurant, Cuenca, Ecuador
On Wednesday thru Saturday nights, from 6:30-10:00 pm, on the 2nd floor of La Vina Restaurant, at Luis Cordero 5-101 y Juan Jaramillo, the Jazz Society of Ecuador holds forth. The group this evening is piano, drums, bass, and a tenor...
Public Mercado down Gaspar Sangrimuno from Luis Cordero
In the historical district are public mercados where vendors sell fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, and sundries from little stalls inside huge open buildings. There are modern groceries in Cuenca but visitors, and locals, like to shop in this old...
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