We have these trips we can offer you with confidence – with Hosts and English speaking guides to welcome you.
Let us help you draw up a personal itinerary with your interests and preferences:
ECUADOR – Many Faces! Many Places!!
The Galapagos Islands – 3 – 8 day itineraries on various cruise ships
A small cruise ship – 16 pax is perfect – navigates the islands stopping in unique, distinctive locations.. Choose a 3, 4 or 8 day cruise. The itinerary is mapped to avoid crowding with other groups.
Hacienda Cusin – for a long weekend or stay the week
Enjoy hospitality and relaxation in the exceptionally unique design at Hacienda Cusin
Consider this destination before or after the Galapagos – only 80 minutes from the airport, but a world away. Remain on the property or Explore the variety of the country:
– hike along the rim of the Cuicocha volcano in the Cotacachi National Park
-explore and shop the market place in the bustling town of Otavalo
– visit the private weaving studios of Maria Tijantansuyo
– drive to the remote Mojanda Lake at the base of spectacular FuyaFuya ….
– horseback ride where ever your heart desires….
Intag & Mindo Cloud Forests – for a night or two
– stay in ecolodge or nature preserve hotel
– travel on your own or with naturalist guide,
– live amidst the most beautiful bird life, butterflies and moths in the world
– encounter the kinkajou and the owl like pino bird, the cock-o-the-rock deep in his forest
– taste coffee where the beans are grown in shade plantations
– learn chocolate production from a visit to the local factories
Quitsato – for an hour
En route to or from the country, find this restored indigenous monument to the middle of the world .03 degrees from the GPS measurement for the equator within view of the highest mountain on the earth’s circumference, Cuyumbe.
Cuenca – spend a long weekend or take the week here. It is a short flight to explore this third-largest city in the country: visit Panama hat factory; the Caja National Park; discover excellent restaurants in the historic center city; relive the ecclesiastical life through the displays in the exceptional museum.
Several hotels to choose from, El Garden Hotel with a gourmet kitchen overlooking one of 4 rivers;
Amazon Jungle Experience – 2 – 3 days
Stay in a lodge or travel by luxury river boat cruise ship on the Napo River .Take a short flight to Coca to transfer to a jungle lodge for 3 to 5 days
Find monkeys, parrots, parakeets, birds – people stay on board walks for safety. Or decide to take a cruise on the Anakonda, a luxury boat that explores the river’s secrets while you reside in the comfort of air conditioned small yacht.
HIKING?
BIKING?
MOTORCYCLE?
just ask….
A tour through biodiverse country with the most volcanoes right on the equator – Ecuador is a cultural tour, a walking or hiking tour; a wonder of amazing new views – whatever tour you choose.