Journey To The Middle Of The World
October 20th 2012 So today involved a trip to the middle of the world. In true explorer fashion taxis were ignored and local buses were the transport of the day.
The Mitad Del Mundo is the place where in 1736 Charles-Marie de la Condamine made the measurements proving that this was the equatorial line – its not, GPS has since proved that latitude 0’00 lies about 300m north, but it was 1736 so I think he can be
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