2nd day. City tour

Today I had to wake up quite early to go on a city tour.
I visited the old city of Quito, which is no very big but which hides 53 churches, only for the old city, isn't that incredible?
The old city is beautiful, totally full of colonial art and built with the rocks of the pre-Columbian tribes. Thus there is absolutely no vestige of the old tribes in Quito, zero vestige.
Then we went on a hill which is crowned by the Saint of Quito, it's a little like in Rio de Janeiro. There is a statue of a saint with wings standing on the planet earth.
It's absolutely beautiful and you can see this statue from more less anywhere in Quito.
After what I went to the Plaza de la Independencia, which is a beautiful square surrounded by the Governmental Palace, the Cathedral (which is the most important church in the country), the Archbishop's Palace and the city hall.
But that day was different, as you know, the Independence day of Ecuador is the 24th of May. Thus for one entire week, there are parades going on. People of all age, military, acrobats, and so on, come from all over the country to exhibit their talents on the public place in the very centre of Quito.
Parades, parades, parades, every body enjoys parades and the atmosphere around it always is festive!
Then we went on the Equator parallel to make several experiments. One of which was to look at the water fall down at tap clockwise in the southern hemisphere, anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and straight down on the Ecuador. Another on was simply realizing that people had less resistance on the Equator i.e. if I pull your arm down on the Equator, I will require less strength.
Then I discovered indigenous cultures that use to shrink the heads of their defeated enemies. They would start by cutting the head off, then taking the skull out, then burn the fat and put the remaining in very hot steam, the head would then shrink to become a head smaller than a tennis ball, isn't that unbelievable too?
After having been impressed by all I had seen, we drove back to the new part of the city centre where I have been wondering around for most of the late afternoon.