We finished our group tour and then went visiting Ecuador on our own!
1st day we took the Teleferico and went to the top of Quito
Trupti and her silly poses!
It was sunny and warm. Quito gets warm and cold very quickly. Sun's out - it's warm! Sun set & rain - It's cold!
Coffee at the top!
Quito's small alley's remind me of Amritsar!
We went to Pululalua and then to Mitad del Mundo!
At Mitad del Mundo! This is the equator! Left side is North and right side is Southern Hemisphere!
At 0'0'0''
Left knee in Northern Hemisphere and Right Knee Southern Hemisphere
We later found out that with improvement of technology the real Equator was found 250 meters away from the current equator!
We saw that on the GPS too!
With our group!
Got it! 0'0'0'0!
We went to the Agave Nectar museum. Trupti got all the attention from the groupies and the security was there to hide her from the paparazzi!
Basílica del Voto Nacional!
Back to Amritsar!
Quito was ready for 2020!
Just like La Paz, Quito also doesn't allow any cars or buses in the city centre on Sundays!
The old houses of Quito look so much like the Riads of Marrakesh
Another old Cathedral!
& another Riad
Visited the Cacao Factory & Shop!
Basílica del Voto Nacional from the inside - 1
Basílica del Voto Nacional from the inside - 2
Basílica del Voto Nacional from the inside - 3
Basílica del Voto Nacional from the top
Again, we hardly see people on Sundays!
We went to Mindo for few days!
Butterflies at Butterfly reserve - 1
Butterflies at Butterfly reserve - 2
Butterflies at Butterfly reserve - 3
Butterflies at Butterfly reserve - 4
Butterflies at Butterfly reserve - 5
We went on a long walk to the waterfalls!
We posed for few photos
Can't see Trupti
Can see Trupti - Phew!
The walk got slower and slower!
Few more poses
Ecuadorians create these silly puppets and burn them on 31st December!
very silly ones
indeed
on 1st Jan, we went to the bird sanctuary and saw few beautiful birds
It was quite early in the morning!
This is why it's called Mindo Cloud Forest!
More birds
and we were feeding water to Hummingbirds
Humming Birds sitting on Trupti's hand
Last few poses in Mindo and we went back to Quito
Native Gold
At the MuNa Museum!
MuNa at MuNa
This is a brilliant painting where humans evolution along with their faith is shown from left to right!
Plaza Foch
Old Ecuadorian Sucre. The US dollar became legal tender in Ecuador on March 13, 2000, and sucre notes ceased being legal tender on September 11. So these are some of the notes from 2000!
& coins!
Ah ha! its a nice place to take a profile photo!
Trupti seems to be doing what she does very well! Just finished off a mango and now ready to lick her fingers and clean them! :D
Our last photo and on our way back to Madrid!
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