From the airport we grabbed a minivan that took us to our hotel “La posada Colonial”. This small colonial hostel is completely charming.
The owners of the place are typical "quiteños", very friendly and easy. They call you by your profession, so to me he always says: Good morning architect! And to David: Good morning engineer.
Our first city tour was the street “La Ronda”, which is Unesco patrimony. This pedestrian street and the houses are completely restored to the colonial way: colored balconies and white facades with hanging street lamps.
Here an impressing baroc cathedral. The golden walls and ceiling in the inside with amazing paintings show the dichotomy between the rich catholic church that steeled the gold from the Spanish colonies and the poor indigenous that were left behind in the colonial time and still today. Sadly we were not allowed to take pictures in the inside.
The “Plaza Grande” or “Plaza de la independencia” is the principal square in Quito and shows more republican architecture than colonial one. Here you see an officialised version of a shoeshine man!
Afterwards we visited the Gothic Basilica of Quito, which was initiated in 1873 and finished in 1985. It is funny for a gothic building to have been finished just 23 years ago, so it looks like it was just recently restored!
Sunset over the city...
In a modern café in the city “Café del teatro” we ended our first journey in Ecuador. We took a canelazo, which is kind of a cocktail with cinnamon, but hot! This drink is also very typical in Colombia.
Tired from this busy day, we went to see the stars from the terrace of our hotel. In the background you can see the “cerro el Panecillo”.
Before going to bed we try to keep up with the diaries.
Caro
3 comments:
quelle rapidité pour nous transmettre les photos de votre séjour. Ca donne beaucoup de vie à votre blog.
Le marché est vraiment très coloré et la population locale paraît plus métissée avec les indiens qu'en Colombie.
qué maravilloso es seguir el viaje de ustedes, a través de las estupendas fotos que han tomado. Es una alegría que nos dan día tras día.
El teléfono de Lina Giraldo, en La Paz es 70161654, el de la suegra es73561326, el 1 no lo entiendo bien, podría ser un 4. El de mi tía Lucía, la monja , en Cochabamba es 59144232269.
Caro y Dave,
Realmente son unos expertos Fotografos.
La Foto de Moserrate quedó Espectacular. también la Foto de la indigena es maravillosa.
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