Well I have been in Ecuador now for 11 days. Feels like so much longer because I have done so much! But have only been in South America for 2 weeks and 1 day. So Quito ... Quito is cool. A bit busy, polluted and noisy for me to stay here too long but nonetheless very cool. The Old Town is great. I can spend hours and hours wandering the streets and drinking juice papaya, pineapple, orange, mandarin etc etc. What else have I done? Well, after allowing myself a couple of days to acclimitise to the 2800m altitude I climbed a volcano. Yep thats right to a summit of 4700m. So you realise how high that is Mt Cook is only 3700 I think. Now that I have impressed you all I will tell you
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