Loja, Ecuador. South America
It's being a while since we don't write a word in this blog but today we felt motivated to share with you a post from The Universe, an ecuadorean newspaper where Bernard Fougéres, writes about a beutiful small city in the ecuadorean southern. Carlos Jumbo is our alibi, and we've traslated a paragraph for your beneplacit:
Loja shelters inside a carton of mountains. Anyone who does not know it, feels Ecuador only the half. I enjoyed myself as a child taking photos on the Jipiro's Recreational Park (the dictionary rebuffed the 'recreational' word). At the City's Gate Museum , drawings by Manuel Serrano fascinated me by the way he changes animal image into humans and viceversa, creating beings from other dimensions with the instinctive cruelty of Stornaiolo, the contrasts of light and shade that Rembrandt loved. I've got my lunch in Quo Vadis, Latin question answered in the same language when I had to affix my signature in the visitors' book: "Quo vadis? Semper usque ad felicitatem sweet est quia desipere in loco "(" Where do I go? Always towards happiness because it is sweet fool around in the right place "). Since then, I remembered the film Quo Vadis?, Created in 1951, with Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. I've got to try a entire bottle of Beronia, romantic wine from La Rioja. In Vilcabamba I triped over in the same way Fidel Castro did it, not for being drunk but for being clumsy since birth
Next time you choose Ecuador for a trip, I strongly suggest to head down south and ask for Loja and Vilcabamba.
