El Crater Hotel Quito

... on Sunday as the area was jammed packed with locals. We watched the bikers head over the finish line doing huge jumps over ramps which was great to see and then decided to head to the famous museum of Quito instead of going to the Equator.<br><br>The Museo del Banco Central was one of those must see things in our guide book of Ecuador and therefore were quite interested in what the museum contained. We weren´t disappointed at all, the museum contains an ...

... as well as all of Medellin´s new elaborate buildings that were most likely funded by drug money. Fascinating right? We opted to skip town and go about an hour into the hills to a little town called Guatape that was surrounded by an enormous lake. On the lake was this huge granite mountain called El Penol that looks like a huge shark fin sticking out of the ground. Like the monolith that makes Rio de Janiero photos stand ...

We rose today, our intention to get to the Siquilisi markets as soon as possible, which was about 30 minutes away. We caught a bus from the bus terminal just off the pan American highway. The tickets cost $0.75 cents each. We arrived at the markets before 9am. We were dropped off at the main plaza and got directions to the markets 500 metres away. There were, in fact, four different markets as we eventually found out. The market we were directed ...

Día Uno: Llegue en al aeropuerto de Quito, es muy grande y tienes muchas personas. Fui al la Ritz Hotel y comí en el restaurante. La comida es muy bien. Después fui al la Independencia y La Museo de Nacional Arte Colonial. Saca mucho fotos. La Independencia es muy bonita y arte es muy interesante. También fui a la discoteca y baile mucho. Yo recomiendo que vayas a la la discoteca porque es muy divertido.

... on the coming volunteers I might start working in the day care center or in some other schools in nearby villages. I might also go to the Galapagos Islands to work with another NGO in contact with FEVI or to &#8220;La Esmeraldas&#8221; which is the northern coast area and also the poorest region of Ecuador. It&#8217;s all still depending and I&#8217;m not decided on anything concrete yet.<br><br>Ilaló<br><br>September 13th I had decided to climb the nearby mountain of Ilaló. It was Sunday ...

... Its a strange thing to be walking along and 50m in front of you a few children pop out of seemlingly nowwhere because they´ve snuck back out through one of the holes. <br><br>I peeked in one of said holes on Sunday and found the park was well and truly in use so I´m not quite sure why it is like that other than the ´fencing´ seems to serve nicely as an impromptu gallery wall for the artisan markets on the weekend. On an aside the paintings were ...

... monument, which signifies the Equator (but it is actually in the wrong location). Actually, Ryan and I have walked over the equatorial line several times. On a recent mountain climbing expedition with new friends from Mitad Del Mundo, Bayardo pointed out to Ryan the marker on the mountain that scientists used for the equatorial measurement. We figured (by eyeballing it) there is a little footpath not far from our house which is likely on the ...

... was not very good and cooled into a hard lump which i didn´t feel like chewing. But you have to try these things!<br><br>And of course for the entire journey we were serenaded by latino music at top volume. <br><br>When we arrived in Quito and got ourselves into the hotel room we didn´t know what to do with the silence. It was ringing in my ears. No music, no motorbikes sin muffler, no brass bands... Just nothing. Weird that we had to come to the capital ...

... kernael are extremely large and have significantly more texture. It is are to describe, but it is very tasty. Old Town has a very colonial feel. The buildings are painted beautifully, with vivid colors & white trim. We walk through Old Town to our next site, Basilica del Voto Nacional. It is baiscally a cathedral without cathedral status. Instead o fgargoles on the outside they have put the animals found in the Galapagos. It is ...

... if I would ever get to visit these places. On my list I consistently had Galapagos, New Zealand and the Great Barrier reef. Addionally, i always wanted to go to Africa, Madrid, Ireland and see the Tour de France. After losing my job, I jumped right into exploring a trip to one of these places. I found out that I had enough mileage to fly to Australia in business class, but would have to pay for additional legs to ...