{"id":76,"date":"2011-01-23T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:14:49","slug":"coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/2011\/01\/23\/coming-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our last day in Quito was varied and relaxed. At 9 AM, we walked to the Botanical Garden for a tour of the grounds and greenhouses.  The orchids<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Orchid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-106\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Orchid-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Orchid-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Orchid.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> and the carnivorous plants were big hits.<\/p>\n<p>We were lucky that a traveling exhibit on fishes of the Amazon was being housed at the garden. A number of fish were on display including piranhas (including one vegetarian species pictured below), <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/VegetarianPirana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/VegetarianPirana-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/VegetarianPirana-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/VegetarianPirana.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>several catfish and freshwater rays.<\/p>\n<p>We next walked to the Vivarium to see some of the amphibians and reptiles of Ecuador. Many students jumped at the chance to hold <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Boa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Boa-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Boa-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/files\/2011\/01\/Boa.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>a 10&#8242; boa constrictor (held here by our tour guide).<\/p>\n<p>The next stop was the excellent National Museum where we concentrated on archaeological artifacts. A nice model of the Cochasqui pyramids we visited yesterday was on display.<\/p>\n<p>After a picnic lunch, we drove north to el Mitad del Mundo (the middle of the world).  We all took photographs of each other straddling the northern and southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>The farewell dinner tonight will be our last planned activity on our Ecuador excursion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last day in Quito was varied and relaxed. At 9 AM, we walked to the Botanical Garden for a tour of the grounds and greenhouses. The orchids and the carnivorous plants were big hits. We were lucky that a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/2011\/01\/23\/coming-to-an-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/galapagos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}