Quito Old Town
June 2nd 2006 Haven´t managed to eat any guinea pig yet as the restaurant wasn´t serving it that day, but had a good look around the Old Town in Quito yesterday. There are lots of churches built by the Spanish settlers, some on the sites of old Inca buildings. The grandest of these is the Compañia, where almost everything is covered in gold leaf, a showpiece of the wealth of the old Spanish colonials - alt
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