The Cathedral and ANOTHER parade (on Father's Day)

Connor said we couldn't leave Quito if we didn't visit the Basilica/Cathedral so we complied.  In the process we also stumbled on another parade that was celebrating the life of a well-known priest.  We enjoyed the pageantry and felt a lot more comfortable taking photos of people in their native costumes.-KS

Okay so this is a huge imposing church that's awesomely cool on the out side with twin clocktowers. So we payed the fee to climb up and started climbing. It was stairs the first 3 stories then it went across a wooden bridge. After the wooden bridge was a ladder/stair then the path went around a bit and finally up the last bit that was SKETCHY!!! Some of the ladder/stairs had mesh so you wouldn't step too far forward and fall off but the mesh on the last bit was missing. So you could had a wrong step and fallen. The clock towers were super cool with Quito in the background. The clock towers however don't match because the Ecuadorians bought top of the line Europian clocks but forgot to get anyone trained in the maintenance of the clocks. So both clocks have slowly stopped. Also coming down the stair/ladders was 2x as sketchy as going up.

Zoe,
Out!

 Galapagos gargoyles at Cathedral