The town in the middle of the earth

This morning we arrived in Quito, to meet the rest of our overland tour group (all english, except for our Aussie and Kiwi tour guides). We travelled to La Ciudad (city) de Mitad del Mundo, on the equator, about half an hour´s drive north of Quito. Quite funny that the major tourist attraction (a 7x7x12m monument) is actually 240m away from the actual equator.

After a week in Sangolqui this was tourist overload, but was of some interest. There are all sorts of experiments (which I reckon are fixed) like balancing an egg on a nail, and the water down a drain story.