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Old People Can Dance too Even old people can dance
While parents like to see their children participating in this parade, it helps their children to see their parents next to them on the parade route. When the parade comes to a stop, waiting for something ahead to clear up, families hug each other,...
Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade
It warms adult's hearts to see children doing dances they did themselves when they were little. There is always concern by one generation that the following generation is going to hell,but traditions do get passed down and kept alive. These children are...
Christmas Parade All day affair
The Christmas Parade on December 24th is the full Monte. It is an all day affair with the parade route being prepared at seven in the morning and the end of the parade passing Calderone Park at seven in the evening. It is music, floats, dancers, walkers,...
Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again
There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven't met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of...
Jazz time Jazz Society of Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador
Gilberto is trying a new reed. Sue is playing clarinet instead of soprano sax. A different bass player is sitting in. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week. At showtime, it doesn't matter how many hours you practice, how much theory you know, how many...
Boys crossing the Rio Tomebamba boys will be boys
This morning there is a Christmas concert in progress across the Rio Tomebamba, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Two young boys have decided they aren't going to walk up or down the river to either of the bridges to cross so they roll up pant legs, leave tennis shoes...
Orchids Gualaceo, Ecuador
Within thirty minutes of Cuenca, right on the highway not far from Gualaceo, is an orchid farm that grows, cross breeds, and sells orchids worldwide to collectors and aficionados. Ecuador is home to thousands of varieties of orchids and Ecuagenera is a...
Incan Code Pumapungo Museum-Cuenca
Walking through the Museum, and the grounds below, gives footnotes of the past. All that is left of the past here are rock walls of homes and stone walls built to terrace land so crops could be grown on hillsides. The soil is deep, dark, rich, and, with...
Dinosaur Comeback still popular
From the street, this exposition seems promising. There is a huge dinosaur on a flatbed in Parque Calderone. There is also, nearby, a tall movie poster featuring a reptile with big teeth, the word Dinosaurs in big letters, and an offer to children to get...
Wedding Pictures A different kind of wedding
These two couples, just married, are getting their wedding photos taken in Parque Calderone. When I first see them they have, with them, a young bearded tenor sax player playing " Here comes the Bride " on a street corner. Their little photographer is...
Bus Crash Taking out a retail shop
The last accident covered in Scott Treks was a rollover in Montevideo, Uruguay on the Rambla. In this case, in the Cuenca Historical District, by the time I walk to see what the crowd is about, the scene is just a crashed blue bus with its front end...
New Cathedral Blues stepping in
The domes of the New Cathedral can be seen from most high ground in Cuenca. The New Cathedral was built in the last hundred years but still qualifies to be called new. The Old Cathedral, on the other side of Parque Calderone, is smaller, less ambitious,...
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