Discover Ecuador Tour 17 Days
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Overview
Highlights
- Start and end in Quito! With the discovery tour Discovering Ecuador by Bus, you have a 17 day tour package taking you through Quito, Ecuador and 13 other destinations in Ecuador. Discovering Ecuador by Bus is a small group tour that includes accommodation as well as an expert guide, meals, transport.
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Trip includes
- Hotel accommodations as mentioned in TWIN / Shared Room
- English Speaking Adventure Tour Guide will escort you through your entire journey
- American breakfast included everyday
- Lunch (just at the jungle lodge)
- Dinner (just at the jungle lodge)
- This Itinerary is based on Public Transportation, however there is few tours that we included private Transportation too in some parts of the tour.
Itinerary
This is the arrival day for all of our tour participants, depending of your flights, you can have a day exploring one of the UNESCO heritage sites in world (Quitos Old Town) or simply rest at the Hotel before our Tour Guide meet you at the Lobby at 6:30 pm for our ori...
On this day we will explore Quito's Old town and its beauty. We will use public transportation to get to there. While in the old town we will visit the Presidential Palace, Main Square, the Cultural Center, Sagrarium Church, San Francisco Church and the famous Street ...
PUBLIC BUS TO OTAVALO CITY This is time to say good bye to Quito! We will take a local bus towards Otavalo City, it will take us 2 hours approx. Onve we arrive, we will check in at the hotel, then you will have plentty of time to explore to beautiful village surrounded by volcanoes. So the rest of the day will be on your own. Overnight in Otavalo.
Early in the morning, we will depart towards Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve, it is located 20 miles away from Oatavalo. Once we arrive we will visit shortly the museum to clarify the entire trail around Cuicocha lake. The total hike is 10 miles, the time approx....
On this day, we will start at 6:00 am to be on time for our journey towards to Tena City. It will take us pretty much all day, considering that we will take two local buses to get there. Once we arrive to Tena , we will chance to have some lunch, then we will finally ...
Early in the morning we'll have breakfast. Afterwards we must prepare our gear: boots, raincoat so we can be ready to begin the adventure! We will board a canoe and start our journey downstream through the enchanted Amazon Jungle along the imposing Napo River. Arrive ...
After breakfast, we depart by canoe upstream for ten minutes, arriving to a small shore where we begin a fun and thrilling one hour walk, marvelling ourselves with the jungle's secondary forest diverse flora and fauna. After our short walk, we'll find ourselves in a b...
After breakfast we will take a taxi back to Tena city for our bus ride towards to Baños, it will take us 3 hours approx. which means that you will have the rest of the day at leasure. the estimated time of arrival in town is at 11:30 am. Baños is a place to enjoy and offers many options as tours or relax. We will also help you if you need to arrange a tour or you can also discover the town on your own.
On this day, you can relax or maybe book a tour, for sure we will help you if you need some assistance. However the tours recomended in Baños are as follows: White water rafting at Pastaza River (Class III) - Modearte 4 hours tour Canyoing at Rio Blanco or Chamana - M...
Early in the morning, we will depart from Banos City towards Chimborazo volcano. This part of the tour will be run with public transportation, it will take 3 hours to get there approx. It is going to be the highest altitud that you will experience on the entire trip a...
On this day you will take the famous train ride trough the Andes well known as the Devil's Nose. This part was the most diffcult to be built by the Railway Company to conect Guayaquil and Quito City at the end of XIX. During the ride you will enjoy the breadtaking vie...
This day we will lead you trough the picturesque streets and plazas of Cuenca City! Get ready to enjoy and explore the magical Heritage Site declared by UNESCO since 1999. This is a city that offers many options for everybody in the group, we will give you some advises that you can do on your own in the afternoon.
On this day we will take a publi bus ride to Guayaquil city, it will take us 4 hours approx. Once we arrive to the hotel, you will get reay to explore Guayaquil's downtown and Las Penas Viewpoint. This city is modern and huge close to 3 million people, but it is nice ...
Early morning public bus ride to Puerto Lopez, normally from Guayaquil takes around 5 hours. On this day we dont have any other actvity planned besides of enjoying the beach or relax at the hotel pool. Late in the afternoon, we will do the coctel show at the hotel, then you will get to know more about our local coctels.
On this day we will visit the famous island called Silver Island or Isla de la Plata, located at 40 miles away by speed boat from Puerto Lopez. This island is well knonw for having some of the Flora and Fauna that seen at the Galapagos such as: Blue Footted Bobbies, A...
This day is free for several relax, walk around town, visit a local community, visit Los Frailes beach and much more. If you like adventure, we can arrange a biking tour or a Diving Tour as you can tell Puerto Lopez has soo many things to do, we are sure you will find an activity that will fit in your idea.
Free morning, 1:00 pm check out and transportation to Manta City Airport to take a flight to Quito late in the afternoon, then transportation to the Hotel in Quito Unfortunately we have to say good bye after we arrive in Quito and we invite you to see one of our other...
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Logistics
What's excluded
- Local Flight from Manta to Quito is not included, however, we recomend that you book it directly through us.
- Chimborazo MTB tour
- Diving at Puerto Lopez
- Biking tour at Puerto Lopez
- Personal Expenses
- Phone Calls
- Drinks
- any activity no specified in program
- Gratuities
Breakfast every day of the tour, Lunch and dinner specified in program
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