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Hi everyone.
We are having a lovely start to our trip. We arrived wednesday eve at about 10pm (ecuadorian time) but were very tired so straight to bed. The hostel is lovely lots of friendly (english speaking ) people with a terrace bar overlooking the old town of Quito! On thursday we went for a walk around the old town in the blistering sunshine, which i wasn't really expecting, then we went up to a park - can't remember the exact name but it overlooked Quito and there was a nice photography exhibiton, was a nice day... however we forgot sincream so we are paying the price today! Both me and Simon are very red and english looking.. and in a bit of pain.. at least we learnt early on! The afternoon it poured down with rain, which seems to be the standard thing to happen! We had our first taste of ecuadorian food which consisted of a soup based starter with pasta and other random things in it followed by a rice dish with a fried banana ontop and a bit of meat.. was intresting but can't say that delicious!
Today we went with a group of people we met at the hostal up the telephonique.. or something.. basically a cable car up one of the moutains surrounding Quito. We then attempted to climb the further 3 hour trek to the summit, slowly loosing people on the way. It was a very exhusting uphill climb but views were amazing (didnt help that we probly wernt used to the altitude)!! didnt quite make it to the summit (which was covered in clouds anyway) but we had a good and tiring attempt at it! Must say the photos don't do it justice! Came back for afternoon nap! Trips going well so far. Tomorrow we head up to cotopaxi hopefully do some horse trekking, or moutain biking, really looking forward to that as don't think im much of a city person, although Quito is beautiful, espacially the old town, some amazing churches !!! After cotopaxi might come back here for a night then maybe head to the amazon!
Anyway.. apart from the sunburn we are really enjoying ourselves!!
Will update again soon
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