Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

Mitad de Mondo - Middle of the world,
originally uploaded by Hol Riz.

On our second Day in Quito we did what every tourist has to and visited the middle of the earth at the equator line. The line itself was pretty dull, just a monument and actually its 250m out (recently discovered with GPS tracking to the embarassment of the French who spent 8 years looking at stars to work out the exact position). It was also discovered recently that the ancient tribes of 1200 years ago had built stone platforms on the exact zero point according to GPS!

We also took a tour to visit the worlds largest inhabited active volcano which is a short ride away. This was spectacular, the guide showed us various medicinal herbs as we acended to 3000 Metres and the view from the top was amazing. 300 residents live in and farm the crater and sometimes at night they can hear the volcano rumbling below them - mad fools. (Check out the photies!)