赤道綠花園度假村

We had really wanted to take this tourist stop. So, we requested our tour operator to make the detour for us. He happily obliged. There is nothing to do in the tiny town of Mogotio, but surprisingly, a whole bunch of vehicles with tourists were making the effort to come here to stand on the Equator. As soon as we stopped, a bunch of sellers surrounded us to entice us into buying something from their souvenir stores. There was a lady there who was demonstrating the Coriolis Whirlpool Movement and its Reversal by moving just a few feet from either side of the imaginary Equator Line. She used simple stuff like a pitcher of water, a bowl with a tiny hole at the bottom and a matchstick. She poured water in the bowl, placed that bowl on top of the pitcher, and then placed a matchstick in the bowl. Cleverly, she showed how the water flows in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere, reverses its direction in the Southern Hemisphere, and goes straight down on the Equator (keeping the matchstick stationary). Basic science, but demonstrated nicely. We avid travelers have all noticed how the toilets flush clockwise in the North, and counter clockwise in the South. But, to see that reversal from just a few feet apart was awesome. We took a whole bunch of cute photos and videos for our memory books. Absolutely worth a stop, if you are into this kind of stuff. We certainly are.