One of the cool things about Ecuador is that the equator runs through it. We went to Mitad del Mundo, which is a few kilometers north of Quito. We took a taxi for $14.00 one-way and it took approximately 25 minutes.Pictures of Mitad del Mundo is on every tourist´s camera - we had to do it. If you read the travel books or look up Mitad del Mundo on the internet you will find out that the huge structure is not the "real" middle of the world (the French screwed it up again). However, we did enjoy touring around and ate lunch there (Llapingachos).
Before we arrived in Quito, as we mentioned earlier, we´ve done a lot of research about the country. We knew that Mitad del Mundo wasn´t the "real" one and found out that the real middle of the world was only 200 meters north. After acting like tourists at the "fake" one, we went outside the walls of Mitad del Mundo and went to Museo Intinational ($3). There, they had the water experiment of watching the water drain center (on the equator), then moving the drain only 2 meters away from the equator and the water drained counter clockwise (north), then the same for the south. You can also balance an egg on the head of a nail (Noland tried but wasn´t successful). There were other cool experiments and things to see at the real middle of the world and we would definitely recommend it to all our friends.
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