Cafe Cultura - Room 1

QUITO - Historic Centre

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October 29th 2009
What a beautiful city Quito is. We flew in over the very different landscape, (compared with the tropical countries we've visited recently), mountainous and arid, into a very easy, small airport with no immigration hassles to our relief (you're supposed to show a ticket out of Ecuador which we didn't possess). We were met by the driver of the hotel which made it just about the easiest transfer w ... read more

South America » Ecuador

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more