We've been enjoying cuenca a lot in the past few days. It's a good city, calm and yet vibrant at the same time. Locals have some sense of style, streets are very clean, architecture is very interesting and there seems to be enough locally and culturally happening to keep it vibrant.
There are some interesting museums here, like the Inca ruins in town and and a very good small museum of native peoples, with nearly 5000 pieces from many of the civilizations before the Spanish conquest. I would have liked to have a bit more information about the pieces, but it's one of the more impressive collections I've ever seen. Well worth a visit to understand the diversity of the cultures that existed here before the conquest first by the Inca and, within a century, by the Spanish.
The fine weather, the scenic city and the overall very amenable place to be here has been drawing many expats down here. Americans in particular, are settling here in large numbers, but many are simply not being good neighbors.
Really, it is ecuador, they do speak Spanish here.
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