I spent two days in a Hostel in Quito before moving into the Meeting Hotel for the Galapagos tour. The first thing I did was freezing and suffering from altitude sickness. Quito is about 3000 m high and I came in the wet season, which is a bad idea. It rains a lot and nothing really ever dries. However, the city has rather nice parts - especially Mariscal and the old (colonial) part of the city. It has huge park areas. I visited the "midad del mundo", a monument...