If Ecuador"s capital city, Quito, isn"t high enough for you at 9,350 feet above sea level, you can elevate your experience even further with a journey up El Panecillo. Translated from Spanish, "El Panecillo" means "The Dinner Roll." Rising 650 feet above the old city center, seen in the foreground, this rotund volcanic hill offers perhaps the best possible panorama of Quito. Though our viewpoint here, looking south through Quito"s vast valley, makes for a nice twilight shot, too.
Old Town Quito
Today in History
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Polar Bear Week
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Bridge to infinity
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Ruins of a royal temple
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The Great Glen
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Whooper swans in Lake Kussharo, Japan
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A gorge-ous mill in the Causses
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World Environment Day
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A stroll above the stratosphere
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Celebrating World Art Day
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A bridge too Fawr
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Swim city
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Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
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Did it see its shadow?
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Beavers Bend
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Polar Bear Week
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Bask in the glow—It s World Turtle Day
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Diwali
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