Airport Transfer

Count on a certified guide and a driver who will meet you at the airport and assist you for your check-in. We can provide a variety of options from a Mercedes Benz to a 40 passenger buses in: Quito, Guayaquil y Cuenca.

Quito and Surroundings

Quito is the home to beautiful cathedrals, elegant old mansions, interesting museums, plazas and parks, and is filled with street markets selling a wealth of Ecuadorian jewels, arts and crafts. This wonderful spring-like climate is dominated by mountains, with several snow-capped volcanoes standing majestically in the distance. It was also declared the third most important world cultural heritage site in Latin America, by UNESCO.

About a 30 minute drive north lies the invisible line called the Equator, and also the famous monument, Mitad del Mundo, where you can have one foot in either hemisphere. Two or three hours north of Quito by bus lies the small town of Otavalo, famous for its Saturday Indian market, which dates back to pre-Inca times, and where bargaining has traditionally been something of an art.

In the other direction, heading south, is Cotopaxi Volcano, which occupies the landscape of a National Park of the same name, and is famously known as the highest active volcano on earth. This is a place where llamas graze and mountain bird species fly, including the Andean Condor, Ecuador's national bird.

2 and 3 days tours from Quito

Not very far south from Quito we find Baņos, a small subtropical valley at the base of the "Mama Tungurahua" volcano. This area is gifted with orchids, incredible waterfalls and medicinal hot springs, and is also the gateway to the Amazon Basin. After Baņos a spectacular train ride awaits you in Riobamba, where you will be zigzagging your way down on the Devil's Nose, a steep incline before continuing on to Cuenca.

Cuenca has been declared by UNESCO a World Cultural Heritage Site. In the colonial city, markets and craft shops display embroidered articles of clothing, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and delicately fashioned Panama hats. Take a side trip to visit Ingapirca, the northernmost best preserved precolonial ruins of the Inca Empire.

Guayaquil

Looking eastwards towards the River Guayas, is Guayaquil. It is recognized as being the economic capital and main port of Ecuador, with around 2 million inhabitants, many of whom come from other parts of the country. According to legend, the name comes from an Indian chief called Guayas and his wife Quil. Who threw them selves into the great river instead of being conquered by the spaniards.

By the 17th century, Santiago de Guayaquil was already the most important port in Ecuador and a stopping-off point for ships sailing the Southern Sea from Callao to Panama and Acapulco. Into its bay arrived all the products that ships brought from Spain: crockery, glassware, clothing from Castle, arms, gunpowder, flour, raisins, wine. From this same bay departed planks of select hardwoods, high-quality cacao, tar, sarsaparilla, ship's rigging, and merchandise that had come down from Quito, Cuenca and other parts of Ecuador.

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