The MIDDLE OF THE EARTH! - visiting ALL of the Equators! J
After grabbing a cuppa REAL jo with Joe and Jo at Caffeto in Old Town, we spent probably a good hour just trying to find the right bus station to catch a bus up to the equator. It was a tad insane, because each stop we went to they directed us to another stop! And so the scavenger hunt began!
2 hours later – once we made our transfer to the “Mitad del Mundo” bus, we arrived and began our search for the REAL equator. There is the super-hyped, and over touristly set French-discovered line that everyone goes to… there is an Inca discovered line that is a 30-minute walk from here up in the foothills… and then there is the equator line tucked a few blocks down at a very small and quaint museum of Inti-Nan. Interstingly enough, as we participated in various 0’0’0’0’… experiments, it most certainly proved to be the middle… and our guide there also explained that the equatorial line actually expands in 5.9km each direction, so technically all of the lines are ‘real’ lines, but that the greatest effects of the gravitational wonder can be seen right on the center of this line – after balancing an egg on a nail and losing the power to resist my friends force in lowering my arms, I would have to agree! I had to experiment with a handstand too – how often do you get the chance to do that?!
After grabbing a cuppa REAL jo with Joe and Jo at Caffeto in Old Town, we spent probably a good hour just trying to find the right bus station to catch a bus up to the equator. It was a tad insane, because each stop we went to they directed us to another stop! And so the scavenger hunt began!
2 hours later – once we made our transfer to the “Mitad del Mundo” bus, we arrived and began our search for the REAL equator. There is the super-hyped, and over touristly set French-discovered line that everyone goes to… there is an Inca discovered line that is a 30-minute walk from here up in the foothills… and then there is the equator line tucked a few blocks down at a very small and quaint museum of Inti-Nan. Interstingly enough, as we participated in various 0’0’0’0’… experiments, it most certainly proved to be the middle… and our guide there also explained that the equatorial line actually expands in 5.9km each direction, so technically all of the lines are ‘real’ lines, but that the greatest effects of the gravitational wonder can be seen right on the center of this line – after balancing an egg on a nail and losing the power to resist my friends force in lowering my arms, I would have to agree! I had to experiment with a handstand too – how often do you get the chance to do that?!
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