Quito
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| Why doesn't it melt? |
Today we caught the local bus to
Mitad del Mundo (the middle of the world) - an hour or so north of Quito, which is a tourist attraction built around the location of the equator. The main attraction there is a huge monument, and a line painted on the ground to show the equator. In addition there are lots of shops, eateries, and various small museums and displays.
It has since been determined that the equator is actually 200 meters from where the monument was built, but that didn't stop the visitors (including us) from getting photos taken with a foot either side of the line. There were plenty of people standing in front of the monument on the East side getting in each others way while getting their photos taken, strangely though there was no-one on the "West" side at all so we had the equator all to ourselves for a while.
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| But that's not really the equator! |
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