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Cuenca Ecuador: Adventure and Agro Tourism

Now you can organize your vacation and travel to Ecuador. Not only think in the Galapagos island, exists other alternative and is in the province of Cuenca Ecuador; an adventure and agro tourism place. Read this story that gives you a tourist guide to this beautiful place.

El Plateado, La Dolorosa, Guzho and Chanlud, country estates of Ecuador, opened their doors to the visitors. Here you can live with the labors of the farmers. They are places where the solar rays always look like to play with the stones of common quartz and with the gritty earth of the giant rocks

The arrived swallows from the south of the continent, in groups, they cross the sky and in the distance the clouds concentrate little by little. The red bugambilias and the sallow to side of the road they alert a singular adventure in El Plateado, one of the estate county properties of bigger attractiveness of the whole Ecuadorian countryside. The peacefulness of the landscape is interrupted with the music that comes from the country property house, located the foot of the imposing mountain, in the sector of Challuabamba, to 10 minutes in car from the county of Cuenca that in turn is at two hours of Quito, the capital.

Cuenca Ecuador travel & real estate The old house built in one of the rocks, with tile roof and a via having paved, is the temporary room of two groups of tourists. They arrived to live together with the landowners of the Ecuadorian country property.

The banana tree, coffee, cane of sugar plants, medicinal herbs and the reinaclaudias, peaches and avocados trees, integrate the landscape. In the interior, a series of traditions reproduces. Isabel Ontaneda doesn't get tired of hitting toctes with a traditional stone of milling. Blanca Guzñay, farmer of the area, is the one in charge of giving a plate of mote cooked in pot of mud and sanguracha water (plants medicinal) to refresh.

The soft breeze doesn't reach to reduce the heat and the temperature increases with the stories on the remains of prehistoric fossils found in El Plateado, the traces left by those that looked for sepulchres or the legends of those who entered to the mountain and they never left.

Then the looks cross among the assistants, while in the distance they to listen the thundering of the flashes that them predicts that the rains come. It is the appropriate moment for the canelazo (with liquor) and to mill the cane of sugar in an old trapiche.

For the visitor, the adventure of living one day in a Cuenca’s country property allows penetrates in the customs and to relax from the pressures of the metropolis. The landscape and the adventure for the roca plateada is the prospective attractiveness. The guide Aurelio Ochoa guides the trip and the first rest is the vegetable garden of cherimoya, capulí and granadillas tress. A rest before the ascent 984 feet (300 meters) in a sheer hill.

When arriving to the peak the effort is rewarded when observing the valley of Challuabamba, the city of Azogues and the rocky plain of the mountain. In fact the adventure begins in the peak of El Plateado. In the caves and in the cracks formed by the journey of the water rain on the rocky structure take refuge bats, owls, and prey birds. In the other end, to the south of the city where the greenery of the landscape and the wind of the mountain prevail, it is La Dolorosa, a cattle country property with 148.2 acres (60 hectares) of land. On the other hand, the lovers of the flowers and of the plants to ornament them prefers to arrive at the country property El Guzho at the south of the capital azuaya.

The preferences don't have limits and another of the journeys is Chanlud. There the imposing dike and the trips to horse are the main attractiveness. The curiosity for the adventure, the family union or the rest is the main objective of the tourists that you/they come to this Ecuadorian corner, ready to that who wants it is integrated to its community.

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Four advice

The four country properties are located to 10 and 15 minutes of Cuenca, in the rural parishes of Tarqui, Challuabamba, Turi and in the basin of the river Machángara.

If the visitors go to El Plateado it is necessary to carry slight clothes and solar protector and shoes for mountain. In the case of Chanlud, La Dolorosa and Guzho is required garments of dressing sheltered and binocular.

The cost per day and person is 25 USD. This cost includes transport from the center of Cuenca, feeding (typical food), canelazos and snacks. More guided journey. You only travel a farm per day.

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