We´ve arrived safe and sound! No problems on our flights or going through customs last night. Got into bed by 11:00 last night. Had a nice breakfast of eggs, bread, jam, a banana, freshly squeezed tree tomato juice (like tart papaya, or a mix of tomato and orange?) and coffee. Chatted during breakfast with an NYU Primatologist and her graduate students who were about to leave for the amazon basin where they´ll be studying monkeys.
We're planning to spend today roaming the center of the city, which is the old colonial part of Quito, then, if we have time and it´s not too cloudy (it´s not now, but who knows) we´ll take the "Teliferico," a gondola system, up to the saddle of the mountain"Guagua Pichincha," which is the active volcano right over Quito. We won´t be going to the top, but there a bunch of restaurants and little stores that have been built recently for visitors. The city itself is at about 9000 feet, and this is quite a bit higher, perhaps 12,000 or 13,000. In keeping with our theme of examining how culture intersects with envirnoment, we`ll pass right over the little farms using the mountain in the old way, as use it in the newer ecotourist way ourselves.
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