DAY TOURS

Papallacta is located in the Cayambe-Coca Reserve at 2 hours from Quito. Its privileged location near the Antisana volcano, near rivers and the south western skirts of the Andes make it perfect place for hiking.

This Paramo area is home to the paper trees which local people knows as the polylepis.

Baños de Agua Santa is located in the province of Tungurahua only 180 km from Quito and 35 km from Ambato.

The tourist city of is located in a valley with waterfalls and hot springs next to the Tungurahua volcano with a height of 5,016 meters.

The most important economic activity in the canton is receptive tourism. The WWF gave the nominative to Baños of “A Gift for the Earth”.

The Cotopaxi is located on the Eastern Cordillera (Real), at a distance of 35 km to the Northeast of Latacunga and 45 km to the Southeast of Quito. Its building forms a symmetrical cone with slopes of up to 35 ° and a basal diameter of ~ 20 km, while the diameter of the crater varies between 800 m in the North-South direction and 650 m in the East-West direction.

The Cotopaxi Volcano offers a very beautiful panoramic view, it encloses a landscape that covers the vegetation on its slopes, mineral features of ancient volcanic eruptions are observed, in its oriental skirts there is a shelter where it allows to own and visitors a view that embraces the valley and the Limpiopungo lagoon where there are wild ducks.

Mindo is located at approximately 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Quito, you can visit here on a day trip or stay overnight at one of the several comfortable lodges in the town. Mindo has tourist attractions like tubing, orchids, butterfly gardens, bird tours, cable car, and waterfalls. Easy access to different private reserves in the cloud forest area.

The Middle of the World City is located in the parish of San Antonio in the Metropolitan District of Quito, north of the city of Quito.

The main attraction of the place is the monument to the Middle of the World, which aims to highlight the exact location of the equator or equator, from which the country takes its name, and also highlight the 18th century Franco-Spanish geodesic mission which located the approximate site through which the equinoctial line passes.

There is also the Intiñan Museum, a museum about the history of Ecuador and its cultures, small experiments are carried out and your passport is stamped, to remember that they were in the Middle of the World. A small city that surrounds the monument acts as a tourist center, offering a replica of a Spanish colonial city called “Ciudad Mitad del Mundo”.

Otavalo is an indigenous market which is open every day, some days are better to visit than others. Saturday is the big day and Wednesday is the second largest day.

Otavalo’s market opens at 7am and continues until 6pm. It is located on the equator, the climate in Ecuador’s Andes is pretty stable. It doesn’t change much through the year.You can expect an average temperatures of around 59 degrees F (15 degrees C).