{"id":1763,"date":"2009-02-16T20:10:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:10:05","slug":"feb-12-a-day-in-quito-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/feb-12-a-day-in-quito-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 12 &#8211; A day in Quito, EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a fairly quiet night (a rare thing anywhere along the Pan Am), we had breakfast in the hotel restaurant, and then got a cab to the Telef\u00e9riQo (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telef%C3%A9riQo\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telef%C3%A9riQo<\/a>), a\u00a0 gondola cable-lift that runs from the western part of the city up to the top of one of the volcanoes than surround the city.\u00a0 It is a fabulous ride, and affords great views of the city on the way up.\u00a0 When we reached the top, it was still fairly clear, and we could marvel at the view;\u00a0 but before long the clouds descended and we were enveloped in fog.\u00a0 The top of the lift is over 13,000 ft. in elevation.\u00a0 We walked around the top, met and talked with all kinds of tourists from everywhere you could imagine, and had some terrible instant coffee.\u00a0 A very cool experience.<\/p>\n<p>After getting back down, we rode the trolley into the old city center, and did some inernet and some window shopping.\u00a0 Saw some more amazing buildings, plazas\u00a0and churches.\u00a0 Levi bought a hat that he had been wanting.<\/p>\n<p>We returned to the Santa Clara market near our hotel for a hornados lunch, since it was just too good not to do again.\u00a0 Then we spent a couple of hours relaxing in the hotel spa;\u00a0 delightful.<\/p>\n<p>A nice break from the routine, and we were ready to get back on the road tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a fairly quiet night (a rare thing anywhere along the Pan Am), we had breakfast in the hotel restaurant, and then got a cab to the Telef\u00e9riQo (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telef%C3%A9riQo), a\u00a0 gondola cable-lift that runs from the western part of the city up to the top of one of the volcanoes than surround the city.\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[21,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}