Goodbye visit to Cuenca

We arrived back from the coast on Friday morning for our final few days in Ecuador before we head home.

My research has meant that I have had more of a chance to see Ecuador than Frederic, and we both thought it would be a shame if he returned to Europe without having a chance to visit Cuenca, which has a special atmosphere of its own.

The reality of this town is that it has the highest proportion of people who have left the country to find work abroad. On the plus side this has bought money and facilities into the town, on the negative side there are a huge number of children left in the region without parents. You can imagine the kinds of problems that occur as a result.

In any event, we spent the day on Saturday simply wandering around the town soaking up the atmosphere. Here are a few of the images which caught our eye.