This is Kerri on the equator line.
This is Matt on the equator line.
This is Jesus on the equator line.
We went up to the top of the monument. This is the view to the North.
The East.
The South
And the West.
This is Matt about to cross into a whole new hemisphere, and he doesn’t even realise it!
There were a couple of little museums in the equator park.
One had a scale model of the city of Quito that lit up.
There were plenty of sundials.
They said that the sundials don’t match your watch because they follow the true solar day, whereas our clocks are adjusted to give a whole number of days each year.
But that fails to explain why the sundials don’t match each other, either.
There was a small planetarium where we got to learn about the constellations visible from Quito. In Spanish. We recognized some of the Northern hemisphere ones, and understood “cruz del sur”, but that’s about it.
There were also opportunities to make sure the equator line pictures were not the cheesiest pictures you took all day.
They even had a green screen! I’m not sure why all of their props have frills if they can’t accurately copy frills and hair, but they do!
