The title of this blog says it all. Unless you are a marathon walker, and daily climb hundreds of stairs and scale small peaks as part of your workout regimen, a walking tour of Quito is not ...repeat..NOT..recommended. My goal, as I have stated often, and perhaps earlier in this blog, but I´m too tired to go back and read and see if I did, is to experience Ecuador from an arm´s reach and eye level perspective. This ideally should involve lots of walking about, seeing the country as it appears to one on the street, not someone in a tour bus or rental car. By the time I got to the Ecuadorian Museum of Culture, I had no interest in taking another step, much less wander about the halls of a museum, studiously reading exhibit
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