Visiting Ecuador and looking for a great Cuenca tour? In this post, you’ll get to see the best of the city of Cuenca Ecuador in this 12-video tour of the city. In this post, I’ve put together our 12 best videos for a great Cuenca driving tour. On this virtual Cuenca tour, you have two options: [...]
Over the past year, we’ve published a number of driving videos around Cuenca Ecuador. In this video, we want to share something a little different. This video is a complete timelapse of the two-hour double-decker bus trip around Cuenca. This post has two videos. One at normal speed (10 frames per second) and another at [...]
Get a glimpse into Azogues Ecuador with this time lapse video of one of the principal intersections in the city. Azogues is a short drive from Cuenca and offers a more relaxed pace of life. This is one of the many towns near Cuenca that can be easily visited on a day trip. The city [...]
It’s been three years since our House Hunters Ecuador episode originally aired. And just last week we got network approval to publish it on our YouTube channel. Our episode is just 1 of 14 filmed here in Ecuador. See all 14 HHI Ecuador episodes. Many of our readers have cited House Hunters International as having helped/influenced [...]
Have you ever eaten prickly pear (genus opuntia) cactus fruit? I never knew cactus plants produced edible fruit until we moved to Ecuador. The only cactus plants I had ever seen in Canada were in little pots, growing indoors. When researching this post I found out that some prickly pear cactus do grow in Canada, [...]
So it’s raining in Cuenca, Ecuador. (This happens kinda often.) What is there to do in a wet and cloudy Cuenca? 12 Rainy Day Activities in Cuenca Ecuador Here are our twelve favorite things to do in Cuenca – on a rainy day. Go for Coffee: There are lots of great places to go for coffee. [...]
Floreana is a small isolated island in the Galapagos. It has a very interesting history and is one of the most memorable places we’ve ever visited. The Galapagos islands are famous for their unique animals. We explored three islands and had unforgettable animal encounters on each of them, but none as breathtaking as on Floreana! [...]
Sure the Galapagos has amazing animals and incredible landscapes. But what about bodyboarding? :) During a few free hours on Isabela Island, Drew and I went bodyboarding. And it was one of the highlights of our trip. We laughed (and screamed) for a solid hour. It is something I will never forget. We borrowed boards [...]
A great way to see Quito is from above. The TelefériQo (a combination of teleférico and Quito) runs up the foothills of Pichincha Volcano and offers a crazy view of Quito. 5 Fast Facts: Quito TelefériQo It is a gondola lift (also known as a cable car). Travels 2,237 linear meters in just 8 minutes Rises [...]
Ecuador has a lot of delicious cultural dishes. Living in the Andes mountains means we are used to the food eaten in the sierra. There is not that much seafood on the menu up here. Recently we were invited to try some coastal food at a restaurant in Cuenca called El Sabor De Las Costeñitas (roughly [...]
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