Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador 🇪🇨 

Beautiful day in Quito as I get up and make my way to the bus station with an Uber driver that can’t follow his sat nav.  Buses to Mindo are fairly regular so there is no issue picking up a ticket.  Mindo is about 2hours west of Quito on a really windy road. 

We pass the centre of the earth, marked by the attraction Mitad del Mundo. This includes a structure with a globe on it, the Monument to the Equator, which highlights the exact location of the Equator and commemorates the eighteenth century Franco-Spanish Geodesic Mission which fixed its approximate location.  However, according to GPS the equator actually lies about 240 meters north of the marked line. I don’t stop to see it any closer, preferring to arrive in Mindo earlier.  It is really nice to be in the cloud forest.  Mindo is a small town which attracts a lot of twitchers for birding.  My hostel is lovely and I settle in nicely making plans for tomorrow’s adventures.