Day 32 : The centre of the world, well not really!

Today we got up early cause we really had to get all of our sight seeing done before our Spainish lessons at 5o´clock. Before we went I had to get some laundry done after Buenos Aires. The laundry service in the Secret Garden is actually the mother of the owner! She has her own apartment in the hostel and you go down and knock on her door with your bag of laundry and she washes it for you! Kinda like home...

We got the Metrobus out to the Ophelia station and got the bus to the centre of the world. All of this for 50c. The centre of the earth is actually a town on the equator with a big monument which doesn´t really impress you too much. Inside the monument is the museum of Ecuador which goes through each region of Ecuador and shows how the people live there! We got through the museum and walked through the town but there wasn´t much to see so we started taking the stupidest photos that we could. No better lads to do that!

We got the bus into town and started to do a bit of shopping for our trip to Cotopaxi. We went through a market and tried to buy gloves and jackets for the trip. We got gloves and scarfs from a market stall and tried to haggle but the owner was having none of it. We got him down a dollar but it was the best we could do. We ended up taking the Trole back. The Trole is an electric bus which is kinda like the Luas only on wheels. Its electric to reduce pollution but it is very regular and very cheap which means it is always packed. We were squished for a couple of stops and got out right outside our hostel where we headed in for our Spainish lesson.

Our lesson was with Santiago. Santi was a teacher in the Secret Garden for nearly three years and he was really easy to understand. He went through all the basics with us, talking to taxis, describing our hobbies and how to ask a girl to dance!

We ended up on the terrace again afterwards having dinner with Luke, who actually rode the Trole as well that day and got his camera stolen! We had another great dinner of Pork and really nice ice cream and cake for dessert. An ecuadorian band started up and played some really cool music on pan pipes and small guitars when we relaxed and enjoyed the view and the beers.


Charlie