it´s our last afternoon in south america. boo/yay!!
we´ve spent this week around quito, ecuador. quito, though it´s a huge city, is really quite nice and homey. we´ve toured around, finished the last of our shopping, checked out cool cafes and restaurants, and done our fair share of relaxing.
on tuesday we took a bus to the equator, just north of the city. there´s a big monument and a bright yellow line on the pavement. the funniest thing is that it´s actually not the right spot – i guess the french screwed up when they built the monument! we went to a small museum next door and they gave us a GPS to use to find the real equator. turns out it´s right on the highway!
yesterday we went to the neighbouring town of otavalo to check out the market and the countryside. it was pretty rainy so we didn´t do the hiking we had planned, but enjoyed a change of pace.
