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Quito, Ecuador
6 places worth your time in Quito, with what each is actually like and when to go.
The best-preserved colonial centre in Latin America, and among the first UNESCO sites listed.
A baroque church with an interior covered in gold leaf, taking 160 years to finish.
Neo-Gothic with gargoyles shaped as Galápagos animals, and towers you can climb.
A cable car to 4,100 metres on Pichincha, with the city laid out below.
The equator monument, and the nearby Intiñan museum which sits closer to the actual line.
A near-perfect snow-capped volcanic cone, two hours south, in a national park.
