Cuenca is the capital of the Azuay province and has a population of around 250,000 making it Ecuador's 3rd largest city producing ceramics, panama hats, gold & silver jewellery, shawls, ponchos ansd blankets. Other industries include textiles, furniture and car tyres. Most Ecuadorians consider Cuenca to be their country's most beautiful city, Cuenca means river basin or bowl in Spanish. The city is situated at 2,549 metres on the banks of the Tomebamba river. We have a free day today, get up 7am, can't get back to sleep as I think this is the noisiest place I have ever stayed, Sarah my room mate agrees, every time someone walks past our room the floor shakes and every floorboard outside our room squeaks. Breakfast downstairs at 9am with Sarah, Julia, Sang and Sybylla. We have all decided to spend the day together as we are wanting to do the same things, banking, museums, Post Office, shopping, art galleries. We decide to look for a nice place for lunch and follow the river whilst looking in art galleries along the way. Have a lovely tapas and greek salad lunch overlooking river, starts to rain so we move inside for a very comfortable afternoon. Returned to our room, Sarah had a nap while I sent some emails and then went shopping for an evening top to wear to salsa club tonight as I didn't bring anything very dressy with me. I found a nice purple top with it's very own bling, bonus, very cheap and a pair of low heeled black shoes which will look ok with my good jeans. we meet in foyer at 7pm for dinner and everyone has made an effort to put on some makeup and which get dressed up for our night of salsa night. Restaurant once again is very nice I have chilli chocolate chicken which is delicious. The people at the club give us salsa lessons and also Gemma tries to help me as she has learnt by going out with Carla a lot , we have a lot of fun and salsa and the music is great. We get back to our room around midnight.
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