from US$3,431
Ecuador.
A balanced and varied program designed to take the time to experience Ecuador; to explore it. Discover the famous Avenue of the Volcanoes
Time for you with 3 nights in Quito; 2 nights in Cuenca; rest and enjoy the places Carefully selected hotels on online review sites (minimum 4/5 and 8/10)
Convenient hotel locations in charming historical places
Highlight local cuisine and find favorite places to eat
English-speaking guide for your entire program
Meals and culinary experiences in unusual places
Unique experience visiting the Galapagos Islands
Diversity (colonial towns; lakes; volcanoes; ancestral gastronomy; Inca site; vicuñas; local communities; hat factory; national parks
Quito.
Arrival at Quito International Airport. Meeting and welcome by your English-speaking guide and transfer to your hotel. Advantages of LatinXplore: - Delivery of your welcome kit - Dinner on your own. Due to the time difference and late arrival, many passengers prefer to sleep directly after the snack provided by the airline. - Early check-in option with extra charge for passengers who arrive earlier Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Driving time 38 km / 40 min – Altitude 2850 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Welcome kit
Quito.
Breakfast at the hotel Free day or optional activities Lunch and Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Altitude 2850 m / Services included: ☒ Accommodation
QUITO, free day or optional activities: Visit Quito Cable Car: Optional: a little crowded, but not too busy / Quito Cable Car This day we went up to 4100 m above sea level by cable car, just 20 minutes from the hotel. Savor the joys of touching the sky, enjoy an extraordinary view of the city, possibility of walking to the Guagua Pichincha volcano. Lunch and dinner on your own more »
Price: US$159 | Duration: 4h |
QUITO, Free day or optional activities : Visit Otavalo and surroundings: Optional: I need adventure, now! Visit Otavalo and Surroundings. Departure to the Great Lakes region. Visit the town of Otavalo and Lake Cuicocha, located in the heart of a crater. Stop in the town of Cotacachi, time to enjoy the shops of this town specialized in leather work. Lunch included, we will enjoy an indigenous Andean Pamba Mesa, with the possibility of tasting the famous Andean guinea pig, a special food of the locals. Visit the town of Peguche and its sacred waterfall, then return to Quito. Dinner on your own. more »
Price: US$194 | Duration: 6h |
Latacunga.
Breakfast at the hotel Advantages of LatinXplore: - Overnight in an Andean hostel Departure to the historic center with your English-speaking guide. Visit the center of the largest colonial city in South America, witness to the indigenous, colonial, inquisition and republican eras. Lunch on your own Departure towards the south of the city, following the famous Avenue of the Volcanoes, named after Alexander Va Humboldt. You arrive at your Lodge, on the slopes of the Cotopaxi Volcano. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Driving time 70 km / 1h30 min in 2 trips – Altitude 3750 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance fees to visiting sites
Riobamba.
Breakfast at the hotel Cotopaxi National Park, visit the Limpiopungo lagoon, climb to the first refuge (by vehicle if the weather permits). Lunch on your own In the afternoon, departure to the south, continuing through the Ecuadorian Andes until reaching the sultan city of the Andes, Riobamba. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Driving time 190 km / 3h50 min – Altitude 2750 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance to the National Park
Ingapirca.
Breakfast at the hotel LatinXplore "advantages" - Explore the archaeological site of Ingapirca Visit what is recognized as the first Hispanic church in the country and discover the vegetable ivory, the Tagua. Continue to Pitishi Viewpoint, weather permitting, to admire and understand the Devil's Nose Railway. A true engineering feat of the time. It was here that the exchange of goods took place between the cultures of the Andes and those of sea level. Arrival in Ingapirca, a small town in the mountains next to the Inca site of Ingapirca. Lunch on your own Guided tour of the site. Continuation towards the city of Cuenca. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Travel time 192 km / 3h50 completed in 3 trips – Altitude 2560 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance fees to visiting sites
Cuenca.
Breakfast at the hotel LatinXplore "advantages" - Learn more about the museum, which features pieces from the country's various indigenous cultures. - Enjoy the afternoon and evening freely, and the numerous gastronomic options in the city Visit to a hat factory in Panama, originally from Ecuador. Belonging to a well-known family from Cuenca who opened their small store where they display a wide variety of hats. Afterwards, your guide will give you a tour of the city. You can enjoy the largest private collection of pre-Hispanic art in the country, at the Museum of Aboriginal Cultures. Lunch on your own Free afternoon to enjoy this beautiful city of English architecture, very pleasant and well organized for pedestrians. Your guide will remain at your disposal. Dinner on your own to enjoy the city's wide gastronomic offer. Hotel accommodation Driving time 5 km / 20 min – Altitude 2560 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance fees to visiting sites
Cuenca.
Breakfast at the hotel LatinXplore "advantages" -Visit the unique Cajas National Park with its paramo vegetation. Passing and visiting the El Cajas National Park. Magical, wild, bewitching landscapes, with one of its majestic lagoons – La Toreadora. Continuation to Guayaquil Lunch on your own Panoramic tour of the city, with the Malecón, the Iguana Park, the Cathedral and the La Peñas neighborhood. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Travel time 203 km/ 4h in 2 trips – Altitude 0 m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance to the national park
Puerto Ayora.
Breakfast at the hotel Your English-speaking guide will accompany you to the airport for your departure to the Galapagos. Meeting and welcome by your guide upon arrival at Baltra airport and then transfer to the capital, Puerto Ayora. You will travel to the upper part of the island of Santa Cruz to discover the twin craters, volcanic formations caused by the sinking of the surface layers of the earth. Observation of flora and fauna. Continue with a visit to one of the local ranches with free-ranging giant tortoises. You will then pass through an end-to-end lava tunnel for a distance of 300m underground. The lava tunnels, splendid volcanic formations, show by their magnitude how these islands originate from large underwater volcanic eruptions. Lunch on your own Continuation to Puerto Ayora and check-in at the hotel. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Flight time: 10 minutes by shared bus; 10 minutes by boat; 45 minutes by private bus. Services included: ☒ Transfers ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance to the Ranch
Puerto Ayora.
Breakfast at the hotel. Free day or optional excursions Lunch on your own. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation 45 minutes’ walk – Maximum altitude 0 m Included services: ☒ Accommodation
SANTA CRUZ : Free day or Optional excursion to Tortuga Bay and Charles Darwin Station: Optional: Walk for about 45 minutes to Tortuga Bay beach, one of the largest fine white sand beaches in the archipelago. You can see marine iguanas and migratory shore birds. The beauty of the environment and the tranquility of its waters will reward this walk. Lunch on your own In the afternoon, we will visit the Charles Darwin Station to learn about the history, flora and fauna, social issues, its inhabitants and the evolution of the Galapagos Islands through its interpretation rooms. We will also appreciate the emblematic embalmed "Lonely George", since he is the last of his hope. more »
Price: US$154 | Duration: 5h |
Puerto Ayora.
Breakfast at the hotel Embark on a boat to observe blue-footed boobies, frigates, seagulls and other endemic birds. Snorkel in Franklin Bay, where you can see a wide variety of colorful fish of all sizes, sea turtles, small sharks, blue sharks from the creek which are completely harmless. You will disembark to observe the vegetation of the island as well as the marine iguanas, to continue towards Las Grietas, lava fissures, you will also visit the salt mines and a natural pool where the salt waters of the sea meet the fresh water of the upper part of the island. Ideal place to swim with fish and snorkel. Lunch on your own Free afternoon to explore Puerto Ayora Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation Boat and 45 minutes’ walk – Max altitude 0 m Services included: ☒ Transfers ☒ English -speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance fees to visiting sites
Guayaquil.
Breakfast at the hotel Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Guayaquil. Lunch on your own (at Santa Cruz airport or in Guayaquil) Arrival in Guayaquil and transfer to the hotel. Dinner on your own Hotel accommodation 10 minutes by boat and 1h15 by bus, in 3 trips – Max altitude. m Services included: ☒ Transfers ☒ English speaking guide ☒ Accommodation
Guayaquil.
Breakfast at the hotel Lunch on your own Depending on the departure time of your flight, transfer to the airport is coordinated. Night on the plane Altitude 0m Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide
All hotel nights in a double room (breakfast included) in the hotels mentioned or equivalent depending on the hotel category you choose
All ground transfers in private service for the entire program
Private English-speaking guide for continent; for Galapagos guides in shared services
All the activities mentioned in private services according to conditions and availability; for Galapagos in shared services
Entrance fees for the continent
Domestics flight to the Galapagos Islands round trip
The meals as mentioned. Breakfast
Continuous assistance from our Office and our operators along the entire route
Drinks (meals included)
Meals not mentioned in the program
Visits mentioned as "optional"
International airfare
Migration card for Galapagos (20 USD)
Entrance fee to the Galapagos National Park (200 USD)
Personal equipment: sunglasses; sunscreen; warm clothing (windbreaker and fleece; hat; gloves;socks);walking shoes; hat and personal first aid
Luggage carriers
Tips to guides and drivers
Travel Insurance
50% of total price from 91 days to 61 days before departure.
80% of total price from 60 days to 31 days before departure.
100% of total price from 30 days to 0 days before departure.