hey guys welcome back to slow travel chronicles my name is stephanie and this is my husband garrett
and in this week's video we're going to talk about the city of cuenca first we're going to
talk about why we chose to come to cuenca we'll also talk about what we liked what we didn't like
and we'll talk about our airbnb and the likes and dislikes that we had with it which are very
small so why did we come to cuenca that's easy we're going to the galapagos islands for a week
we wanted to stay in ecuador it really came down to quito or cuenca keto is large kind of sketchy
this stuff to do is all spread out it's got issues that large cities have cuenca smaller
very walkable much safer from a standpoint of like petty crime and petty theft that sort of
stuff large expat community here so we just thought that we'd enjoy spending more time
here than in keto and having been in both places we made the right decision yeah i agree with that
uh was there anything we didn't like about cuenca didn't like about poinca yeah i mean it's nothing
spectacular but that's okay maybe you think it's a little or we think it's a little over hyped
like if you lived here all the time it would feel like a suburb of oh yeah of any us city at least
in our opinion there were things to do like uh arts type thing they have a zoo here which we went
so check out that video if you haven't already lots of churches yeah i think part of the issue
is being here for only a month in the rainy season it rains almost every day it doesn't rain hard
it doesn't rain a lot but it rains just enough to dissuade you from say going to the national
park that's an hour away or going up the mountains and going hiking so if you're going to stay kind
of in the city area the city itself you can do everything there is to do in like two days
you know after that it's kind of like okay yeah so you kind of feel like you're in
yeah you're just in a smaller town there's just less things to do but i think if you actually
lived here it'd probably be a lot better from that standpoint yeah but you know keep in mind you
know everybody watching this that we do kind of live in the places that we're going so we stayed
here for a month so we kind of get a routine we go to the grocery store probably way too much
yeah we do some boring stuff you know some days we don't even leave the the condo yeah
there's good sports on tv we watch tv yeah so yeah we liked it um yeah it was good yeah
dislikes not really any our airbnb this airbnb was awesome a lot of americans and furnished
by americans and that makes a big difference yes comfortable couch the bed was comfortable
it was clean the full kitchen was a full kitchen as advertised that every utensil knife plate
bowl you know it actually had tupperware tupperware lids to pop yeah lids to pots i had
everything except for a nice selection of spices a little bit of salt a little bit of pepper a little
bit of sugar that was it yeah that's fine yeah the only kitchen thing that we were missing was like a
garlic uh press but you know i used the one i have at home once every six years so not a big deal
it was very quiet the building is very nice we actually met friends that live two blocks over
that they're building that they're in same builder but we have an awesome courtyard our
condo actually has two balconies which because it's the rainy season and we're still in their
fall i guess or their winter well rainy season their rainy season it's still chilly one thing
that if you haven't ever been to ecuador we found this true in keto and here there's no central
air or heat like there's no heat yeah it's mild temperatures year round it's like 16 to low 70s
yeah but it's kind of weird when you come from the us and you're used to having a furnace and
air conditioner here if you get hot you um open the door and you get cold you close the door and
that's pretty much it it works too yeah um i made a list let me look just to make sure we didn't
forget anything oh yeah i missed a lot of things the on the airbnb we like the location the size
is good we have two bathrooms which is we love having that i had a bathtub we have a bathtub here
and the only problem with that we're leaving tomorrow and last night i fell getting out
with the bathtub i think that's not a problem with the airbnb it's a problem with being an old person
and my foot is messed up and ankle so um other than that oh we hadn't um
let me clarify she fell before she started drinking beer there's no beer drinking until
after the fall yeah i needed i definitely needed a beer after the fall but we've had a
great time here i would definitely come back here if there wasn't as many other places in the world
we want to go to oh yeah that's nice enough um the food i would say that's the one thing
possibly a dig on the city i found that the food prices were kind of jumping back food prices were
a little higher than i expected but if you go to the mercados like all the fruits and vegetables
they're way cheaper but like some of the imported stuff so i guess like garrett told me yesterday
if you just buy the local stuff it's not as high but you know peanut butter is six dollars a jar
that's kind of high yeah but we haven't been in the states for two three months really now so
it's probably high there at least from what we see on tv anyway that's true and um yeah other
than that i think that wraps up this video i hope you liked it if not leave a comment below if you
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