Quito
October 27th 2007 Just coming to the end of three days in Quito - we are about to head off for the Amazon basin. Quito has been an interesting introduction to South America - an armed guard outside the hotel, people jumping on and off buses at street corners (they don´t stop just slow down), crowded markets, streetside foodstalls, colourful buildings made out of concrete which you are convinced have´t been finish
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