Thursday in Quito, part 2
This was one of the churches (Iglesia el Saguario) around the central park of Old Town Quito.
This is a government building of some sort. It's not the president's house, which was also nearby. Or maybe it is a side view of the president's house. Hmmm.
Plaza de la Independencia
Cute Quito street
La Compania (we should've gone into this one)
We didn't actually go into many of the churches, to tell the truth, we were tired and had seen plenty of churches and amazing architecture and they all started to blend together. We did head toward the Plaza San Francisco because a friend of mine had told me that church and view were worth seeing. Then we saw the massive statue:
Can you get the scale of this thing!? It's huge! My book says 30 meters tall, however much that is in feet. It's the Virgin of Quito, and apparently you can climb up inside the base for a view. We didn't, though, as we'd heard that the neighborhood underneath the statue is kind of dangerous and not really worth the trip. I was fascinated with the statue from afar, though.
