Today we ventured further out of Quito on the bus to Pululahua crater, one of the particularly large craters of the many volcanoes around Quito. So large, that there is a farming village inside the crater! It was pretty spectacular, and well worth the climb in the heat!
Then we stopped at Mitad del Mundo, the equator! We had to get the typical tourist photos standing on the line. There is a monument marking where the French team first calculated the equator to be, and then another tourist centre 300m up the road where the equator was later measured to be by military GPS. Was definitely worth negotiating the buses, a hot and sticky but pretty cool day. The Spanish is improving daily too!
We forgot to add yesterday's 'Sam Fact', but here is Sam Fact for Day 3: while we were at the crater, we saw Cayambe, the only snow-capped mountain on the equator!
Hasta luego (see you later!)
Great blog you two, I am enjoying the travel facts section in particular!
ReplyDeleteI am currently struggling to grasp the narrative angle you are using for the blog... The switching from third person to first person narrative is causing confusion for the reader...
Other than that, good stuff!