Saturday, February 11, 2006

Which way does it flush?

Quito at last!!! And it only took 2 weeks and 9 different busses… Now I have to turn around and head all the way back down to Santiago again…

But first an update. I spent my last day in Baños wandering around the hills. Started out at about 10ish in the am, and made it back to my hostel by around half 5 in the pm. Wore myself out well good and proper. I had a headache for the next day, combination of too much sun and altitude. But I had fun, I even had tea with some old dairy farmer in his little shack up in the hills. I was walking along minding my own business when this guy came running out and invited me in for tea. So I spent a good hour or so having tea and chatting away in Spanish with this old guy. He kept trying to feed me, I had to physically stop him from cooking me up some eggs. Crazy, but fun.

Quito! The northern most point of my journey, and the farthest north I have ever been. Quito sits across the equator so I am no sure if I have crossed into the North Hemisphere yet, would be the first time for me. I’ll have to check which way the toilet flushes when I get back to the hostel.

Today I went out to Otavalo to see the market out there. Absolutely amazing, this was by far the biggest craft market I have ever seen. Fortunately I went on my own, so I was able to wander through, make a purchase or two and be done all in about an hour. Pretty good huh? I reckon if I had of had female company (i.e. Sophie, Mum) I would never have made it out of there.

Anyway I’d show you my new groovy hat I bought, but the computer here doesn’t like my new camera. I blame the computer, it can’t be the camera, it’s new!!! And boy do I love it, though I haven’t a clue what half the buttons do, yet. But fear not I have a week on a river boat ahead of my to work it all out. And when I do I’ll put up a photo or two of me, in my brand new Roy Ban sun glasses. I look like a pimp in them, they are great! The guy who sold them to me said they were Ray Ban, but I figure for $12 there is no way they are, so Roy Bans it is.

Anyway have to go, much to do and so little time. Tomorrow I am off to the Jungle to try my luck catching a river boat back into Peru. Could be quite the adventure.

LaterZac

3 comments:

Sophie said...

AN HOUR!!!! You can't do justice to a market of the size and calibre I'm imagining in an HOUR!!!

Oh I so wish I was there!

BTW i signed mum to blogger - no more anonymous comments. She should show up as "This is your mother!" (until she changes it)

Lex and Judy said...

I'm with you Soph - you'd think he might have done an extra round just for us - hope you took lots of pics.

Zac said...

Nope no time for photos... Just in and out. Though if you guys ever decided to come to South America, I think Ecuador is the place to come, it's not too big, and has everything you could want.