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Things you didn't know...

- Quito has 1,8 million inhabitants?
- In Quito you are at a height of 2850 meters?
- Here you can find the famous volcano Cotopaxi and that it is the biggest and most active volcano of the world?
- Ecuador since 1875 lost 75% off its surface to Peru? And because of that Ecuador isn’t the biggest but the smallest country of South America?
- Ecuador is one of the most corrupt countries of the world?
- Here we eat the same as in our country? Except for good French fries.
- You have electric showers in Ecuador?
- You have to throw the toilet paper in a bin next to the toilet because otherwise the toilet gets stocked? (What about the turts?)
- It is normal the electricity falls out a few times a day for half an hour?
- Here they only give one kiss instead of two/three? And to everyone?
- Here are as much as street dogs as children who keep you awake the whole night with their barking?
- It isn’t as tropical whether as you may think.
- That cars and busses cause a lot of black smoke and it stinks horribly.
- About 3000 buses have permission to drive in Ecuador because of the environment but that about 5000 are on the road?
- There are no traffic rules, only traffic lights, but nobody cares even about those?
- The crosswalk doesn’t have a function? It’s only decoration.
- The airport is almost in your backyard? Really cool those airplanes straight above your head and so close by.
- Constantly children come into buses asking for money or to sell whatever?
- There are a lot of shoe shiners on the street?
- They eat guinea pig as a delicacy?
- Old fashion way the guys come asking you to dance with them?
- Here they don’t drink jus with vodka but vodka con jus, but it’s still hard to find the jus?
- The last Sunday of every month is bicycle day and they close the streets for cars? A lot of Ecuadorians go bicycling. The mayor of Quito thought people didn’t exercise much so he decided Quito needed a bicycle day.
- In Ecuador its possible to, at the same time, stand on the South part and on the North part of the hemisphere? This you can do on the equator.
- The children really enjoy our attention?
- Woman breastfeed their children in public? No matter where?
- Mothers don’t have buggies but they carry their children on their back?
- It’s normal to be beaten with a belt on your birthday by your friends?
- It’s a ritual to get a big puppet for your birthday filled with candies and that you have to break it? Called a Piñata?
- A lot of houses have balusters in front of windows and doors to prevent burglary? What if fire breaks out?
- You see more local musicians in other countries then in Ecuador itself?
- You can get robbed in the trolley bus?
- Children everywhere pie on the streets?
- You shouldn’t jump out of the bus because then you fall really hard?
- You cannot communicate fine when an airplane flies over?
- You can fold and roll the Panama hat without problems and the hat is made in Ecuador and not in Panama?