Cuenca, Ecuador is a fantastic place to spend New Year’s Eve! No, wait – that’s not quite correct. Cuencanos celebrate “Años Viejos”, the Old Year. The festivities are more focused on saying farewell to the old year than in welcoming the new one. However, all the celebrations are much more elaborate than any in the United States.
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An awesome place to spend New Year’s Eve
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Tags: celebration, cuenca, customs, ecuador, festivals, monigote, new year's eve, photos, south america, travel
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The Markets in Gualaceo and Chordeleg
Check cuy off the gastronomic list! Cuy, pronounced like coo-ee, is an Andean delicacy that we missed trying in Peru on our 2006 trip. Cuy can be charcoal roasted (as we had) or baked. What is cuy? Most people know it as guinea pig. Forget that Sherri once had a pet guinea pig named Ginger. The Andean guinea pigs are born to become part of special celebrations, like holiday dinners. Cuy is delicious! Joe thinks it tastes like really sweet chicken and Sherri thinks it tastes a lot like dove. Continue reading
The Twelve Days Before Cuenca
In the twelve days before leaving for Cuenca, my true friend gave to me – Continue reading
Categories: blog, Cuenca, preparation, travel
Tags: 12 days of Christmas parody, cuenca, ecuador, learning, learning Spanish, spanish, travel
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The trip in a box
Yesterday among the cartload of ubiquitous smiling brown boxes from brazillian-river.com[1] that the UPS driver lugged to Joe’s door was this mysterious priority package:
The mysterious UPS Priority package
Upon closer examination (which really didn’t have to be that close), Joe found that the three-pound package came from AHI, the organizers of the upcoming trip. Continue reading
Where?
Ever had the desire to live in a foreign county? Maybe not forever, but at least during the cold winter months? Twowhotrek have had that idea for some time. Now we get a chance to live that dream.
In March 2007, Twowhotrek visited South Africa. We really enjoyed the city of Capetown, the beauty of the surrounding area, and the vineyards not too far to the east. After a cold Michigan winter, the warmth of South Africa’s late summer felt great. One day the thought came as we were bouncing on a tourist bus – why not spend a month in Capetown some US winter? After all, of the eleven national languages in South Africa, English is the one most commonly used. They even drive halfway normally, just on the other side of the road. Sadly, mundane things like having to work for a living have prevented that dream from coming true so far (but we haven’t given up yet!).
Fast forward to 2012. Continue reading
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