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The trip on the bus from our hotel took about forty five minutes, so the service buses would have probably taken much longer - glad we chose this option. At the centre of the world there is a monument - appropriately named the Equator Monument.
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You may recall that it was only a couple of days ago we visited Greenwich - it was with Quito in mind that we went there. Within 2 days we had feet in all four quadrants of the world.
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The monument has a neat ethnic museum with artefacts and costumes of the areas of Ecuador. The museum is viewed top down - a lift takes you to the top, and nice views then you walk down through the museum.
View from the top
Quite apart from the main monument, around the site are cafes,
gift shops and other small museums including one about the sun.
Now the bad news - according to GPS measurements, the equator is actually about
300m further north. You won't be surprised to hear that here, too, there is a
bit of a monument and equator line.
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This site, a small farm a little further on than the main monument, has its own small rural museum. The owner proudly displays his GPS with 0-0-0 showing (not always a "live" reading, though) and demonstrating that water flows down a plug hole in different directions depending on the hemisphere - a bowl filled with water then emptied. My GPS had the equator line just at the gate entrance to his farm!
Tomorrow we head off for the Galapagos - the holiday really takes off, now
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