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  • A Journey Through Ecuador
    • Azogues
    • A Guinea Pig Lunch
    • Baños
    • Baños Del Agua Santa
    • Baños Cathedral Museum
    • Black Sheep Inn
    • Cajas Reserve
    • Condor Reserve
    • Corpus Christi
    • Cosas Raras
    • Cotacachi
    • Cuenca
    • Driving with Lex
    • El Mercado de Cuenca
    • Amazon region
    • El Quinche
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    • La Fiesta del Sol de Ingapirca
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Baños Cathedral Museum

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Thgis room contains a collection of toy trucks, paintings of the Virgin Mary, a baptisimal fount and other assorted stuff
The museum strectches around the 2nd floor collonade
The museum strectches around the 2nd floor collonade
It houses a collection of truly beautiful ecclesiastical garments.
It houses a collection of truly beautiful ecclesiastical garments.
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But it also has the most bizzare collection of other stuff with the world's worst examples of taxidermy
What is that animal....?
What is that animal....?
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So this is happening while 500 Ecuadorians are in the church below singing Simon and Garfunkle songs...
pity the poor rabbits....
pity the poor rabbits....
like a Noah's Ark gone desperately wrong...
like a Noah's Ark gone desperately wrong...
The Virgin Mary made of beans
The Virgin Mary made of beans
Pinocchio and a collection of frogs and a scorpion playing musical instruments.
Pinocchio and a collection of frogs and a scorpion playing musical instruments.
but a collection of really beautiful painted wooden religious statues
but a collection of really beautiful painted wooden religious statues
These are 17th century carvings
These are 17th century carvings
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and there is a collection of paintings thanking the Virgen of the Rosary of the Holy Waters for miracles - particulalry those involving trucks.
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A movie projector
A movie projector
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This is the record of a miracle. It says that the young man took a photograph with his cell phone of a rain bow and at no time did he see a cross but when he downloaded the image to his computer a cross miraculously appeared on the computer screen.
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A pig head in a jar with two noses and three palettes
A pig head in a jar with two noses and three palettes
a meteor
a meteor
Wedding cake decorations.....
Wedding cake decorations.....
and a shrunken head which the caretakers swear is real.
and a shrunken head which the caretakers swear is real.
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