Ecuador
& Galapagos Tours & Travel
ACTIVE QUITO
(Departure on: Thu. Fri. and Sat.) (4 nights / 5 days)
Includes:
" Transfer Airport / Hotel / Airport in Quito
" 4 nights accommodation in Quito
" Breakfast
" City tour & Equatorial Monument
" Rafting through the white water - Toachi River
" Canopy + Horseback riding or Mountain Biking in the Cotopaxi Volcanoe
" Hotel Taxes
ITINERARY STARTING ON THURSDAY
Day 1 - Thursday : Transfer Airport / Hotel
Day 2 - Friday : Breakfast. City Tour & Equatorial
Monument
A comprehensive city tour includes visits to residential neighbourhoods
at the northern end of the city, visiting the " Guapulo Mirador",
passing through the 12 of October Avenue up to the Culture House and the
Legislative Palace (Congress) where the rock murals that are related to
the history of Ecuador can be appreciated.. The tour will then continue
through the Gran Colombia Avenue up to the Basilica Church. Walking through
the colonial streets we will then stop at the Independence Plaza admiring
the Cathedral, the Government's Palace, and the archiepiscopal palace.
Furthermore, we will visit La Compañia Church where adornments
and gold altars can be appreciated, a visit to the Sagrario Church and
San Francisco which was built in the XVII century will be also done (entrance
is not included). Then we will be heading to the "Panecillo Mirador"
(entrance is included) a beautiful place from where a sight of colonial
and modern Quito will be taken.
We will continue at the northern part of the city heading up to the "Half
of the World City" (entrance is included) where the monument that
divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere will be visited.
It was built during the XVII century when a French Expedition defined
the precise location of the equatorial line. The Ethnographic Museum can
be also be visited (entrance is not included)
Finally we can visit the Sky lift complex (ticket not include), passengers
returns to hotels by their own in this case.
Day 3 - Saturday : Breakfast. Rafting through the white
water "Toachi River"
We will leave early in the morning to the town of Santo Domingo. After
two and a half hours we will arrive to the Toachi river where we will
have a security lecture and then we will travel by the Toachi River for
about three hours, includes snack after the adventure.
Day 4 - Sunday : Breakfast. Excursion to Cotopaxi Volcanoe
Enjoy and unique adventure in the laders of the Cotopaxi volcanoe and
enjoy the sight seeing hile you practice the activity of your choise between
mountain bike or hourse back riding. After taste of a local soup take
a ride to enjoy the sourroundings and start the canopy andventure. To
finish on the way back enjow few haciendas and if the times allows maybe
get the experience of cow milking.
Day 5 - Monday : Breakfast. Transfer Hotel / Airport
ITINERARY STARTING ON FRIDAY
Day 1 - Friday : Transfer Airport / Hotel
Day 2 - Saturday : Breakfast. Rafting through the white
water "Toachi River"
Day 3 - Sunday : Breakfast. Excursion to Cotopaxi Volcanoe
Day 4 - Monday : Breakfast. City Tour & Equatorial
Monument
Day 5 - Tuesday : Breakfast. Transfer Hotel / Airport
ITINERARY STARTING ON SATURDAY
Day 1 - Saturday : Transfer Airport / Hotel
Day 2 - Sunday : Breakfast. Excursion to Cotopaxi Volcano
Day 3 - Monday : Breakfast. City Tour & Equatorial
Monument
Day 4 - Tuesday : Breakfast. Rafting through the white
water "Toachi River"
Day 5 - Wednesday : Breakfast. Transfer Hotel / Airport
2011 price per person in US$
| Hotel |
single
|
double
|
triple
|
| Isabel Reina |
$700
|
$579
|
$557
|
| Howard Johnson |
$781
|
$590
|
$557
|
| Mercure |
$799
|
$608
|
$597
|
| Dann Carlton |
$821
|
$645
|
$642
|
| Marriott |
$1259
|
$876
|
$803
|
|