Easter in Quito

By -
Yesterday we arrived in Quito, our last major stop before returning home. As we mentioned before, we had no idea that we were travelling during the busy Easter long weekend, but I have read that Easter is really cool here in Quito, so in the end it all worked out.

A view of the Panecillo from the Historic Center in Quito



Spending time here in Quito allowed us to see some of the great big Cathedrals of the city in the Holiest day of Christendom. This morning we decided to attend Easter Mass, and complete our Easter Ecuadorian Experience.

Our Uber left us a little far from the Church of La Compañia de Jesus where we planned to listen to mass, I guess most of the historic center in this area was pedestrian only today. We went into a few different churches before finding the one we were hoping to visit.  We did not take pictures, as photographs are not allowed inside the churches during mass. But all the gold leaf in the church was pretty impressive. I read that if you could weight all the gold leaf in that church alone it would add up to one ton of gold, a rough estimate in today's prices would add up to $36 million dollars in gold! Crazy, Eh? 

One last picture, this one from last night's trip to Supermaxi, and not at all related to Easter...it just made us laugh.

These peaches are better than you, and they know it!





Comments

  1. P. A. S.April 21, 2019 at 9:05 PM

    We're excited to have you back! And to hear of these last adventures! :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Monasterio de Santa Catalina: A city within a city.

By -
Image
For our last Saturday here in Arequipa we decided to visit the Santa Catalina Convent. The convent is located in the historic center of Arequipa and it is considered the most important and impressive colonial structure in the city. Constructed from Sillar, a white volcanic stone quarried locally, the convent was founded in 1579, and is truly a city within a city. The nuns constructed private cells within the convent where they could lead isolated lives, protected by high walls sheltering them from the surrounding city. Most museums, or tourist sites here in Peru encourage you to have a guide, normally we prefer to do it without one, but this structure was so large, and with so much history, that I am glad we opted to have a guide show us the place. One of the many alleys within the Convent. Each street within the convent is named after a Spanish city, I think this one might have been Malaga.
Read more

Templo de la Luna

By -
Image
Our time in Cusco has at last come to a close; it has been a wonderful month, both seeming to have gone quickly and slowly at the same time.  Trying to remember back a month ago to our life in Calgary seems like another lifetime. For our last Saturday hike, we finally made it up to Templo de la Luna, which Monica, Maija, and I had attempted but failed to reach back on November 14th.  It is a small-ish set of ruins, but quite pretty with an interesting set of caves (which were unfortunately mostly cordoned off, although you could look through them). One of the caves which you could actually enter.  There is a large altar here, similar to the one at Q'enqo
Read more

Friends, and random pictures here in Cusco.

By -
Image
I wanted to write a little about some of the people we have met here in Cusco. As I have mentioned before we are lucky to find fast friends in our local church congregation. We still have one more Sunday here in Cusco and thought we would take the opportunity then to say good bye to our friends and take pictures too. Well, at the end of our church meeting we found out that next week church is cancelled all over Peru due to elections. Apparently a lot of shops, and churches do not meet since people have to travel back to vote in their designated areas, and no one goes to church anyway, thus we were not able to get pictures of all the many people that have shown us kindness here in Cusco, but here are a few: Maija met two really nice girls at church, we could not find Aby, but here is Maija with her friend Flor. They kept asking Maija how to say things in English
Read more