Monday, September 27, 2010

Cuenca!!!!

So this pass weekend we had a trip to the little town of Cuenca. It was the best. It was cold and I know most of you are thinking cold. Well yes Cuenca sits in the Andes, all mountains so it was really cold. Cuenca is the thrid largets city in Ecuador and is famous because it was one of the places the Incas lived at and developed many homes that still stand today. In Cuenca their primary meat is guniea pig. I know it sounds crazy but thats hat they eat. They grill it and eat it. Not much meat on a guniea pig I must add. Cuenca is famous (as I stated before) is known for the Incas whom use to live in Cuenca. The Incas were great warriors having in control eventually Ecuador to Chile dates do vary of course. One thing about the Incas that stand out to me is how they bulid their homes. They would bulid them out of bricks by stacking them on top of each other untill they made a perfect fit. They did not use anything inbtween the bricks and today some of their runis still stand. You can see in my pictures how there is nothing inbetween the bricks. The also had a rock that was a moon counter (I believe that is what my tour guide said). You can see the holes in the rock and in 28 days the moon would had hit alll those spots in the rock. The Incas were a smart civilization that eventually fell to the Spanards.

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