There is a really large museum in Cuenca called Museo Banco Central. The museum is meant to capture the history of Ecuador from the time of ancient civilizations to now. So my roommate and I went, and this museum is huge. There were three floors of pictures, artifacts, paintings, clothing, and even shrunken heads. I am still a little fuzzy as to why Ecuadorian’s shrunk heads, but it has something to do with making sacrifices to the gods. In addition to the three floors of the museum inside, there are also ruins outside of the museum, a flora/fauna observatory and a bird observatory. In total it took us about 3 hours to go through the entire thing. The inside of the museum was interesting, but the outside was gorgeous. It was pretty amazing to see such
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