We've been on the continent a day short of a week now, and tomorrow morning we'll be heading for Banos, en route to Peru. We arrived in Quito late Monday night, after a long day of flying, and found our hostel, El Centro del Mundo, without much trouble. We've been catching up on sleep quite a bit in the last week, maybe due to the altitude or the sun or the cervazas, but we've also managed to pack in a fair bit of out-and-abouting. The first couple of days we wandered around on the self-tour of the city. Quito has some beautiful architecture and even better views, as it is built through and up both walls of a valley. We spent one afternoon just laying around in a park nearby and also met up with Shaell,
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