I met my little buddy Juan in El Centro before 11am and we managed
to just squeeze in before they closed to get up to the top of the Immaculate
Conception Cathedral to take a few shots.
There was another large group of Ecuadorians up there, born and raised
in Ecuador , but now living
in New York ,
and just here visiting. Being up there
with the new camera and lens was exhilarating.
It was also great to get some shots of the pan flute players
and the mime buskers and the street artists.
Gotta love this town.
We then wound our way south then east to the Banco Central
Museum where they don’t
allow photographs. Nothing much was new
in there so we went down to the Pumapungo Inca ruins and the aviary. It was very strange that there were no
llamas in evidence anywhere. The peacock
male still hasn’t regained his tail feathers either. We had a Belgian waffle lunch before heading
over to El Vergel for a few shots before I had to head home. Note that I will upload these photos
tomorrow.
I had to get hurriedly cleaned up to try to make an
appearance at Rommie & Charles’ place for a meet n greet for their friends
Bob & Cathy who will be moving to Cuenca to live very soon. It turns out that Bob is another photographer
so we had quite a chat. As I was
leaving there was a hummingbird posing for me near the entrance so I caught a
couple of shots of him.
Then, being Saturday, my next duty was to head to Joe’s Secret Garden
and do my thing for Greek night. Again
we met some very nice new people and made some valuable contacts. One of our tablemates at supper could turn
out to be a valuable asset for Hearts Of Gold….
That was the day's
excitement, Cheers, Al Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/