The monument at Mitad del Mundo

El Mitad del Mundo, Otavalo and Cotacachi

November 23rd 2014
Friday 21stNovember 2014 On Friday we stood on the Equator! We didn´t think it would be as momentous an event as it turned out to be. It is just a line, after all, painted on the ground, near a rather grand monument, but it means so much more when one reaches it. This yellow painted line is merely the manifest indication of the zero; <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;" ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Cotacachi

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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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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