After eventually arriving in Ecuador with my new bus friends Jimmy and Braydon, I checked into my hostel The Secret Garden where I was treated with a ¨special¨coke made especially with rum, and where I proceeded to wait for a bed to become available for me. This didn´t happen until about 11pm and in the interim I decided to go and visit the Basilisk though given my fear of heights I didn´t make it all the way to the top of the belfour. I then had dinner at the hostel which included an open bar (w´hoo) so I quickly forgot about my bedlessness though as metioned, I eventually was shown where to lay my weary yet slightly tipsy head. Despite this being the start of ¨Quito Week¨I think this is actual normal behaviour for this hostel.
The following day the bus buddies and I went to Mitad del Mundo to get that box checked. It was reasonably straight-forward to get to though again was very touristy once there. I had expected nothing less though and took the obligatory photos on the incorrect line as everyone does. (The GPS equator is about 200m away from the monument and line on the ground...oops).
Given that each of us had things we wanted to arrange back in Quito, it was a short day trip out. I managed to arrange last-minute impromtu flights to The Galapagos (YAY!) for the following day and then the three of us met up again for hand-made icecream. Unfortunately after these gustatory delights, we went back to Jimmy´s hotel to find that one of his bags had been stolen. In it was his passport, credit cards, laptop and so on. Ouch. That would have to be my worst nightmare. Needless to say, the rest of the afternoon was spent keeping him company while he called home to cancel cards etc. At least I had my flight to ecological heaven to look forward to for the following day.
The following day the bus buddies and I went to Mitad del Mundo to get that box checked. It was reasonably straight-forward to get to though again was very touristy once there. I had expected nothing less though and took the obligatory photos on the incorrect line as everyone does. (The GPS equator is about 200m away from the monument and line on the ground...oops).
Given that each of us had things we wanted to arrange back in Quito, it was a short day trip out. I managed to arrange last-minute impromtu flights to The Galapagos (YAY!) for the following day and then the three of us met up again for hand-made icecream. Unfortunately after these gustatory delights, we went back to Jimmy´s hotel to find that one of his bags had been stolen. In it was his passport, credit cards, laptop and so on. Ouch. That would have to be my worst nightmare. Needless to say, the rest of the afternoon was spent keeping him company while he called home to cancel cards etc. At least I had my flight to ecological heaven to look forward to for the following day.
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