Center of the World

Trip Start Dec 14, 2007
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Trip End Nov 25, 2008


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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Quito is a suprisingly nice city. I was staying in the "New City" area witch has a bunch trendy little bars and resturants. Though I did get into the old city a couple of times and it was quite nice aswell.

For a day trip I went up to the monument on the Equator, which is a few miles north of Quito. It has a flashy monument and a line on the ground, which is aparently not quite the correct spot. We also went to a museum, that claimed to have marked the "Real" equator. It was marked with GPS 12 years ago, when GPS was still scrambled. The guild proceded to tell us a pack of lies on a host of differnt subjects, and did some silly experiments that in no way proved anything about the equator. But it was still entertaining, and worth the trip.

It took a while before I uploaded these pictures because I left my camera behind at the museum. More on that in the next post.
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