I spent five days in Quito, Ecuador, right as everything was starting to shutdown for the COVID-19 pandemic panic. That was five months ago and, after all that is happened in the Year of Our COVID 2020, it seems like it was several years ago, not a few months ago.
This is Plaza Argentina on the north side of Quito, just above the Mariscal district where there were a lot of nice hotels and great restaurants aimed at the foreign tourists. Locals call the Mariscal neighborhood "Gringolandia" because this is where you see us Gringos in our natural habitat, spending 24 to 48 hours in the City of Quito before embarking on journeys to the more touristed parts of Ecuador, which almost always included the Galapagos.
I was in Quito, weirdly enough, to see Quito. That's not typical. Typical is using Quito as the transfer point because your international flight landed at Quito's airport in the middle of the night and you have time to kill before you head on to the tourist meccas elsewhere in this beautiful country.
No I do not know what that big wooden sculpture in the plaza is. I asked some locals. They didn't know either. I guess it will forever be one of those mysterious secrets of South America that will not be surrendered.
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