Directly in the middle of the ecuador, water goes straight down when poured into a bowl with a hole at the bottom. Step a few away and the water starts to spin clockwise or counterclockwise depending which side you’re on. Go on the opposite side of the ecuador and it spins in the other direction. The GSP tells us all zero’s. This is the exact middle of the earth.
South America
Here’s episode two of our Travel Talk series. We decided to do something different with this one and asked other people in the hostel for tips. We were staying in Quito, Ecuador at the Secret Garden Hostel. The hostel had a beautiful view of the city. We enjoyed it so much that we stayed for a week and a half to celebrate one of Ecuador’s biggest holidays.
In a small town on the border of Colombia and Ecuador is a beautiful enormous church called Las Lajas Sanctuary. It was built from January 1, 1916 to August 20, 1949 and looks more like a church out of Europe than South America with it’s massive neo-gothic look. Before 1916, it was a much smaller church and went through several phases before it became what it is today.
Close to 5,000 meters / 16,400 feet. It was the highest altitude on land I’ve ever been to in my life. I climbed one of the highest active volcano’s in the world.
I don’t know what I was expecting out of Colombia but I don’t think it was this. I loved it.
I was recommended to take Mike’s Bogota Bike Tours by a dozen different people all with good things to say about the tour. Through all the recommendations, no one explained what to expect or what I’d see. The website is pretty simple and generic. Most of what was to come from the tour I was completely surprised by and mostly because I had no idea what to expect.
For three days, I volunteered at the Guarani indigenous village of Peruti in the province of Misiones, Argentina. This was with the same organization I was volunteering with in Buenos Aires. There’s about 1,000 people living in this village and with at least 300 to 400 children.
From November 2009 to January 2010, I volunteered with a nonprofit organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina called L.I.F.E. I found them through Google but what I really found came back to me with a surprise. I was about to volunteer in an area where my mother had spent years growing up in and I had no idea.
I had an apartment for a few months that was two blocks away from this cemetery. As you can imagine, I visited this cemetery several times. Every time I had a couchsurfer or traveler stopping by, they wanted to go to the Recoleta Cemetery. I had memorized the maze. It was equally as impressive every time I [...]
This colorful and pleasant city is surrounded by the Andes mountains. Salta has more of a Spanish influence compared to the rest of Argentina. There are museums, art galleries, and beautiful churches throughout the city. Very charming city.
