Exploring the Equator in Ecuador!

Once in Quito you cannot leave the country without visiting the Equator line! Obviously! Even though the place is a fairly horrendous Tourist Mecca, we had a fun day with other travellers we met in the Secret Garden and enjoyed doing silly experiments and watching water curl this way or the other etc. Very entertaining! We had an English speaking tour guide walking through the museum-park with us but she was so fed up with her job and so bored of her own talk tha she spoke too fast for most of us to understand, we were too busy running after her!

Most of you will probably know that the French built this huge monument (left) 200m away from the real equator, obviously this is not mentioned anywhere! Unless you read the small print you would never know.

The "real" equator line has a much more humble monument on it. We like! These are lovely Emma and Vanessa who we met in Quito and who both live in Australia and I can call my first girlfriends in Oz!!! HURRAY!