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
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