Cuenca is a beautiful colonial city located in the highland of Ecuador. It sits at roughly a 1.5 miles high and is 3 hours from Guayaquil. Cuenca is also quickly becoming a popular destination for retirees and after Ivan took us around I can see why. It has the architecture of Cusco, but on a much larger scale and it is so close to nature.
We began by staying in the "valle" of cuenca 15min from town. Ivan and his family had invited us to stay there while and enjoy the country. Truely a great way to start any backpacking trip, but the high has to be helping Ivan bury a dead pig on the hillside. Ivan seemed to really enjoy my jokes about how ditch digging is in my blood, and if Keith wasn't so damn good at dinging holes i could of thrown in some gringo jokes.
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