Hotel Plaza Grande Quito
Garcia Moreno N5-16 y Chile Quito, Ecuador
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Quito - what a magnificent setting
I finally arrived in Quito , Ecuadorīs capital , on Sunday lunchtime after yet another very lengthy and tiring journey. Couldnīt get a bus in the afternoon on Saturday so had to hang around in Popoyan until a night bus which finally left at midnight. Arrived at Ipiales , the border town on the Colombian side at around 6.30am , then caught a …
Equator, Churches and Protests
We spent the first bit of today in la Ciudad Mitad del Mundo: the City in the Middle of the World. There's a huge monument with a small museum on the inside. This little town only exists because it is on the equator... a bit of a tourist trap really but you get to learn some interesting tidbits anyway. From the top of the monument you can see a bit …
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New Town Quito
... into two parts based solely on age. I don't do it with football
shirts or girlfriends, it feels a bit odd to do it with towns. BUT, with
a ...
¡Viva Quito!
... hostel around the corner and then we could move to our original hostel for the remaining 3 nights!
The festival that is going on is called ĄViva Quito! This can be translated as long live Quito! The first night there was live music on a square near our hostel so we had a fun night out enjoying the Ecuadorian music!
On Sunday we visited Mitad del Mundo. This is the monument on the equator, 22 km north of Quito. ...
Back to Quito !
... paint but our guide told us it was all real. The cathedral in the grand plaza is impressive aswell due to all the paintings, one of which has the last supper but the main dish in the middle is Cuy ( Guinne pig ) ! Weird but interesting. Then headed to Santa Domingo church and monastery . They have a room full of paintings of martyr , showing how they died! The room was a dinning room and let's just say it may have put a few people off their dinners as the paintings were ...



