Travel to Cuenca

How to get to Cuenca?

Cuenca is one of the most important cities in Ecuador, so you´ll find different kinds of transport easily. Cuenca is located in the South of Ecuador and is known for its beautiful and old buildings that make the city is called “Ecuador’s Athens”.

The weather

The weather in Cuenca is quite cool, between 20-27 degraes. In Cuenca you´ll find sunny mornings and cloudy afternoons. A comfortable city.

Cuenca tourist attractions

I went on a trip to Cuenca-Ecuador The tourist places I visited were

Light Park

New City Park is located in the area of Miraflores, on cerro Yanacauri also known as Yanacauri also known as you're Pedro being a place of visit of Pope Juan Paul II Cuenca in 1985.

TURI 

A great place to enjoy a nice view of the city of Cuenca, good restaurants of typical food and great attractions of high Adrenaline and fun.

National Park “Cajas”

A paradise for the lovers of the trekking 

National Park  “CajaS” is full of gaps (more than 200)

The tram

The tram is the new Cuenca´s attraction. You have to buy a ticket previous your trip. It´s a modern tram and you could see the city in a very good travel. When the travel finishes, the tram takes you 

back to the first station

These were the best places in my visit in Cuenca 

You really have to visit them.

Crafts in Cuenca

I´ve arrived and it´s really exciting. It was a short travel since Cuenca until Gualaceo by bus. I wasn´t tired. When arrived to Gualaceo I visited the worshop of ¨Macanas¨.

Mr. Jiménez is one of the few artisans of Gualaceo who makes shawls with totally natural elements and with the technique of ¨Ikat o Amarre´´

José Jiménez's macanas relive an ancestral yarn, which could die with him. Jiménez explained me every step for making his cloths while we toured each space of the ground floor of his house that is of earth, and where he has a part of his workshop.

I could also know several places inside of Cuenca. Here the pottery is highlighted, hand embroidered and has dozens of jewelries in which you can acquire wonderful works of goldsmithing.

Typical food

Mote Pillo

Mote is a type of corn that is popular in Ecuador. In Cuenca you can find the best Mote Pillo. The dish is prepared adding white onion, garlic, achiote, eggs, milk and cilantro to the corn and it´s very delicious.

 

Morteruelo

It´s a pasta made with pork liver, spices and bread. Often are added other meat ingredients, like chicken, rabbit or pork loin.