TL20150727SinamuneConcertQuito

Machu Picchu & the Galápagos

Lima • Cuzco • Machu Picchu • Galápagos • Quito
OAT: 7/18 - 8/3, 2015

Sinamune Concert • Discover Quito:

After breakfast this morning, we enjoyed a moving musical performance by the Sinamune Disabled Children's Orchestra,
whose members are physically or mentally disabled.
Grand Circle Foundation provides Sinamune with financial assistance, helping to give these talented and dedicated musicians
the support and encouragement they deserve.

After the concert, we departed for downtown Quito. In Quito's historic section, we saw La Basilica,
with its impressive 377-foot Condor Tower—notice how the gargoyles represent indigenous animals.
We also enjoyed a walking tour of Quito's colonial nucleus: Independence Plaza (Plaza de La Independencia),
featuring a winged statue representing freedom.
We saw the Presidential Palace, with its stalwart guards in traditional uniforms keeping watch.
Then we finished at San Francisco Square to see its church.

After lunch, we continued exploring Quito with a stroll on La Ronda,
a historic narrow lane where you can sample traditional candies and see work by local artists.

今天早上 8：40 出發，
先去看 Sinamune Disabled Children's Orchestra 表演，這也是 Grand Circle Foundation 贊助的。

然後我們去 Quito 市區觀光。

午餐後後回旅館已經三點多。
下午我們要整理行李，明天只帶部份衣物飛去 Galápagos,
大部份行李將留在 Quito 旅館。

Sinamune Disabled Children's Orchestra 表演

去 Quito 市區觀光。

每個禮拜一都有的集會，總統演講，然後遊行，
我想是為了吸收遊客的一種表演儀式，

Plaza de La Independencia
Plaza Grande is the city’s central square, surrounded by administrative buildings, museums,
tourist offices and one of the oldest cathedrals in South America.