Mitad del Mundo part 2

22 km out of Quito lies the ¨middle of the earth"
also refered to as the equator. So us ozzys set out to say goodbye to the southern hemisphere and HELLO to the northen hemisphere. The location put down by the spanish and the french as the equator is a park/museum with a giant globe in the middle, surounded by N S E and W lines. You can run from the north to the south - and make calls such as "we are worlds apart" and "you are on the other side of the world to me" - till your hearts content. However, it didn´t take long till we noticed that the toilets on the northen side still flushed anti-clockwise.... questioning our year nine science knowledge of the coriolis effect. We then left the park, only to find an additional sign claming the to have the location of the equator on thier grounds.
It turns out that thanks to GPS technology developed 10 years ago, the spanish "equator" is a massive FUBAR, and the actual equator was a few hundred meters away. Even more interesting, the incas had the exact location which they refered to it as the "sun path".
This place was fairly random, but it was to be expected as it was quite new. The tour here started with a history lesson of indigenous Ecuador (be-heading flow chart instruction included as shown), then a little nature (boa constictor as shown) and then some science. Some interesting things to come out of the science lesson were 1. you weigh less on the equator 2.the coriolis effect!!!! 3. eggs can balance on their ends and 4. your stength is depleted.