This
early waking thing seems to have stuck. I lay in bed and played online for a
while before going to get some coffee on the roof top bar and catch up with
some new friends. We sat chatting for most of the morning as there isn't much
to do on a Sunday. We eventually decided to go visit the mitad del mundo so
grabbed some sandwiches and set off in a cab to the bus station. There were
also limited busses running but managed to get one pretty easily.
We
found the monument and paid our entrance fees to get in. It was nothing
spectacular and technically it's in the wrong place. This monument was built in
the 1800's by the French and they were slightly wrong with their location
(about 100m or so). There is a place where you can balance an egg on a nail but
there were so many broken eggs around. I think it's because they got the
equator in the wrong place.
We
headed back to the hostel and in the cab we were confronted by some closed
roads which I think is because the Pope is in town but not sure when he is
appearing in public but could be interesting to go see him.
In
the hostel we sat at the bar chatting and grabbed some food before Céline left
to get her bus to the jungle. We had some more drinks and Lies and I were
talking about planning a road trip from Cape Town to Amsterdam and how we could
try get sponsored to do it.
The
night continued with a few more drinks until we were thrown out of the bar as
it was closed and we all made our way to bed.