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We visited Parque Carolina, a huge park in the middle of Quito, which was quite nice, though mostly bereft of people. - P6110008
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Jeff was delighted by this sign at the Jardin mall. I'll leave the translation as an exercise for the reader. - P6110015
Although this picture doesn't do a very good job of capturing it, there was a gasoline distribution strike going on most of the time I was in Ecuador, creating lines for gas over a mile long at every gas station in the city. Whether the lines were actually caused by a shortage or just a fear of a shortage, we were never able to tell. - P6120019
This as a picture of Pablo Castro, our excellent Spanish teacher with whom we had daily 4-hour lessons in the first floor of the Panchos' residence, which serves as a German language school in the afternoon. - IMG 2846 002
Old Town. We are staying in new town, so we decided to visit some of the old buildings and churches and stuff, which I actually find to be pretty outrageously boring. - IMG 2851 003
Mitad del Mundo. A monument erected on the equator, which is about 30km north of Quito. Quite impressive, even though it's about 100m off the actual mark, which they discovered only six years ago using GPS and GIS. Oops! - IMG 2852 003
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