We arrived in Quito on December 18 after a long and tiring flight with a stopover for 6 hours in Mexico City. We checked into our little hotel in the old part of Quito, and forced our stunned, overtired and breathless selves out to explore. We walked the first half of a walking tour of the old center that was described in our guide book.
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| One of the plazas in Old Quito |
On December 19 we picked up our tickets for Galapagos. We walked around in the new town and looked at the craft market and some higher end art and craft galleries. We had lunch in a restaurant that served typical Ecuadorian food - humitas, which are corn flour steamed in corn husks, and chicken with beans and rice.
The following day we flew to the Galapagos Island and boarded a 16 passenger boat for a 7 day cruise. Lucky for us 9 of the passengers that were supposed to be on the boat cancelled because of the impending end of the world on December 21, so we were a very comfortable group of 7 passengers. Our fellow travelers were Hein, from Germany, and Aruna and Vathani and their teenage children Ahilan and Easwari, who are living in Bolivia.
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| The Floreana, our home for a week |
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