Attraction Seven Mirador de Turi
From nearly anywhere in Cuenca, look south, then raise your gaze, and you’ll see a big, bright, white church on a hill. This is Iglesia de Turi, perched on the …
View ArticleAttraction Five: El Cajas National Park
Encompassing roughly 70,500 acres (110 square miles) between 10,200 and 14,600 feet in elevation, Cajas comprises a rugged landscape of rolling hills and glacial valleys, lakes, and high peaks. Indeed, …
View ArticleAttraction Four: Art, Food, And Crafts Festivals
Reporting on his visit to Cuenca in 2010, Times of London travel writer Joshua Wellesey remarked, “I think I can safely claim that this charming little city has more …
View ArticleIntroduction
In February 2013, GringoTree.com ran a survey on Cuenca’s top-ten attractions. It asked respondents to choose from a list of 30 attractions, ranking them from one to 10. It also …
View ArticleLearn-Spanish Books
Introduction Whereas children mimic much of what they hear before learning to read (aural learning), adults tend to learn better by reading and understanding before they speak (visual learning). Books...
View ArticleLearning Spanish as a Senior
It’s hard enough for most people to learn a second language as a kid, let alone with gray hair, creaky joints, hardened arteries, and shrinking brains. Linguists disagree over just how long …
View ArticleWhat To Expect from Your Spanish Adventure
It’s not like Hebrew or Arabic, where you have whole new alphabets and the vowels are dots and dashes and not even letters. It’s not like Mandarin, which uses logograms …
View ArticleTable of Contents
The following is the complete Table of Contents for Expats in Ecuador: Learning Spanish. The book is organized in a loose chronological order based on the way expats will pick …
View ArticleObtaining Ecuador Residency in Cuenca, August 2013
by Dr. Alan Woods It took only 20 working days to go from submission of immigration paperwork to the delivery of my Ecuador cédula, thanks to the efficiency and personal …
View ArticleAll About the Term “Gringo”
More than any other destination for North American expats, Cuenca has laid claim to the word “gringo.” There are gringo nights, gringo haunts, gringo meet-ups, gringo prices (aka the “gringo …
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