Ecuador's gran capital, the "City of Light", is a city near 2 million located
9,350 feet high in the Ecuadorian Andes. Green hills and mountains surround the city, whose attractions include a beautiful colonial Old Town, pleasant parks, and a more modern side with all the doo dah that goes along with it. Like all cities (at least to me), Quito gets redundant after a few days of walking through it, although it is up there on the list of my favorite cities I have ever visited. However, I did have a good time exploring churches, museums, and parks, along with being able to see the Ecuadorian Independence Day festivities. The architecture in Old Town 
was awesome, along with the generally more relaxed mood. Highlight of the city was their old, gothic basilica. For $2 you could explore the church's highrise towers via stairs, ladders, and boardwalks, getting a great view of the city while also a great sense of vertigo standing on wire mesh floors and climbing ladders with views to the ground far, far below.
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