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looking into the crater  
   

looking into the crater

can't tell you how rough I felt on AMS at the time!
Quito and the equator

January 19th 2010
Quito seems to have a bad rap in all the travel books (notorious for muggings), and it seems to be a strange city, about a mile and a half wide, but very long, sitting in a bowl hemmed in between volcanoes upto 4500m on one side, and 5900m on the other (but these are mostly in the clouds). The city is supposed to be at 2800m, so coming back from the Galapagos and sea level had left me a little bre ... read more
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Ecuadorian Flag 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
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