View of Quito from Itchimbía
A bull fight I stumbled upon on my first night in town (quite by chance)
This bit was weird - the bull just rammed the horse (which was all padded up and blindfolded) while the guy on top poked it in the back with a spear.
This fighter was quite impressive
As was this guy with the tight pants and fluffy poles.
This guy was crap.
... as was the amount of goes it took them to kill the thing.
A rather ignominious end...
The basilica (outside)
and inside
still inside
and on top
still on top
Quito's old town
A piñata shop!
An Irish guy and I went and found the true equator marker, which was covered in dirt - so we had to ask around to find it. It's about 240m from the big monument, which is that far South from the correct line.
Straddling the equator. The annoying beggar is in the Northern hemisphere.
A view roughly along the equator of the pre-Incan equator marker on the hill.
