The next couple of days were pretty laid back, we took it easy while we took advantage of our great apartment.
We walked from our apartment to the Mariscal district, which is very much a "tourist" area - hotels and hostels, artesan markets, bars and of course expensive restaurants with pretty average food and an automatic "service charge" tacked on. Plaza Foch is the central part of the district, with a slogan of "Foch Yeah!" ... shouldn't it be "Foch Si!" around here though?
We also visited Museo Guaysamin, which we had read some good things about, based on the life and art of Oswaldo Guaysamin, who was a champion of human rights and suffering, especially for the indigenous people of South America. We had guided tours of the Capilla del Hombre (Chapel of Man), which contained many of Guaysamin's works, and of his house, which contained further works and gave us an idea of how he lived in his later years (which seemed pretty luxurious actually, with a pool, huge bedroom and a giant studio).
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