All around Quito

We joined up with the rest of our 71 other fellow cruisers and hoped on buses for a day all around Quito. Highlight for me was about an hour north of the city at Latitude 0” 00” 00 . . .aka the Equator. 2450 metres ASL at 752 millibars of air pressure . . . we could feel it in the breathing walking around the small hills that make up the display area.

Had a nice dinner out at nearby restaurant with our fellow shipmates and got back to the hotel to get our suitcases out for pickup so they can be inspected overnight by the Galapagos authorities for any banned stuff. We will see them next on board ship.

Tomorrow we fly on a charted plane for the two hour flight to the Galapagos Islands where the real fun begins,Read more