Today, the Spring Semester group took a day trip to Chordeleg and Gualaceo, two towns outside of Cuenca. At Chordeleg, we visited a museum and a market, and at Gualaceo we had lunch and saw a few (read: at least a dozen) dead pigs being roasted at an indoor food market. Though the shopping, particularly for shoes, is allegedly stupendous in Gualaceo, we didn't have the chance to go. Whether honest accident or not, several people were quite upset. I like to think I was less upset than many since I didn't plan on making any purchases anyway. However, the day was not wasted. We spent time at San Bartolome Guitarras, a little shack on the side of one of the roads that winds up the mountains around Cuenca. There we learned about the process used to make guitars, and how some of the designs around the holes (dad, could you please supply the correct terminology here?) are made using material that has been compressed and cut into super-fine pieces. A lot more was said, but it was somewhat early in the morning and I was a little more concerned with taking photos than to write everything down.
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AuthorKate Hiller is a wannabe world traveler studying journalism and Spanish at Ohio University. This blog is about her experiences living abroad in Cuenca, Ecuador for a semester. (Spring 2014) Archives
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