AUGUST 9 - SUNDAY: MINDO
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Tour starts at 08:00 - We will be back in Quito approximately 19:00
Breakfast in an organic coffee farm
Birdwatching in the aviary
Witnessing the entire life cycle of butterflies
Learning how Ecuadorian artisanal chocolate is produced
Optional: cross the Mindo River on a cable car and see the cloud forest below.
Canopy: A multi-site zip line ride through 10 stations above the cloud forest of Mindo.
RATES: $ 200 Include private transportation and tour Guide
Extra Expenses:
Breakfast: Approximately $5 to $ 10 per person
Bird Watching Garden - $ 5
Butter fly farm: $ 6
Cable car over the cloudy forest: $ 5.
Chocolate Tour: $ 10
Optonial: Canopy over the Cloudy Forest: $ 20
AUGUST 10 - MONDAY - MIDDLE OF THE WORLD AND QUITO
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Tour starts at 10:00 and finish approximately at 17:00
Visiting: Rumicucho Ruins - Pululahua Volcano - Intiñan Museum.
Basílica del Voto Nacional. Walking tour by the old town of Quito.
Independence square. The Golden Church. Plaza de San Francisco and la Ronda Streeet.
Rates: 140 include transportation and Tour Guide.
Aditional Expenses:
Rumicucho Ruins: $ 2
Intiñan Museum: $ 5
Iglesia de La Compañía: $ 5
Basílica del Voto Nacional: $ 4
Taxi to return back from the old town to your hotel.
AUGUST 11 - TUESDAY: OTAVALO AND SURROUNDINGS
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This tour begins at 8:00 AM and we'll be back in Quito at approximately 8:00 PM.
- Breakfast in San Pablo Lake - Peguche Waterfalls - Otavalo Indigenous Market
- Cuicocha Lake - Cotacachi (The leather town)
RATES: $ 220 Includes Private transportation and tour guide.
Extra expenses:
Entrance to Peguche Community: $ 1,50 per person.
Travel by boat over Couicocha Lake: $ 3,50 per person.
Breakfast: Approximatelly $ 10 up to $ 14 per person.
AUGUST 12 - WEDNESDAY - OPTIONAL TOURS
Gay Videos and Saunas.
In this case only we can visit one gay video and one gay sauna
It is better to go from 17:00 up to 19:30
Fare: $ 30
Entrance to the Sauna: $ 10 per person.
Entrance to the Video: $ 3,50 per person.
Transportation: Taxi.
ANOTHER AMAZING SIDE OF QUITO .
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In this tour we can visit the cable car, the chapel of the human being and the botanical Garden.
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AUGUST 13 - TUESDAY - CUENCA CITY TOUR
18:00 Cuenca Night Tour
We can make an interesting city tour in Cuenca in a double-deck bus.
In this tour we are going to know the history of the most important places of Cuenca.
Fare: Tour Guide $ 80
Includes transportation and tour Guide
* I will try to go with another expat living in Cuenca so you can have a good conversation.
CAJAS NATIONAL PARK - GUALACEO - CHORDELEG - HATS FACTORY.
Tour stats at 08:00 Simón Bolívar y Benigno Malo.
We will finish approximatelly at 17:00
Breakfast at “Las dos chorreras” - “La Toreadora Lagoon”- Santuario de la Virgen del Cajas.
- Chakanas in Gualaceo. - Jewerly in Chordeleg - Montecristi Hat Factory.
FARE: $ 250 Includes private transportation and tour guide.
Extra Expenses: Breakfast: $ 14 plus taxes.
FRANCISCO GUAYASAMIN
Travel Agent & Ecuador Tour Guide
