Day 1: (✈) Arrival In 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
Day 2: Quito: Trip To The Nearby Amazon
Breakfast at the hotel
Advantages of LatinXplore:
-Depending on the category of lodge you choose (3* and 4*) the itinerary may vary a little.
Departure to the nearby Amazon, descending the slopes of the Andes.
Arrival at La Punta Ahuano beach. Get off the bus for a short canoe ride to the Lodge. The goal of this day is to enjoy the Amazonian atmosphere and relax in the afternoon by the pool.
Lunch included at the Lodge with stunning views of the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon River
In the afternoon relaxation and exchanges. The Lodge also has an observation tower, a swimming pool, games and relaxation areas, and the possibility of massages.
Dinner included
Accommodation at the Lodge
Possibility of night walk to observe wildlife
Driving time 220 km/ 5h15 – Altitude 600 m
Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Entrance fees ☒ Lunch and dinner ☒ Accommodation
Day 3: Amazon: Local Activities
For this second day in the Amazon, you will leave early in the morning to La Isla Island, to observe the endemic birds. Afterwards, return to the Lodge for the buffet breakfast.
Breakfast at the Lodge
The morning will be dedicated to a jungle walk with a native guide, accompanied by your English-speaking guide. This is an opportunity to observe the fauna and flora and learn about the medicinal plants and the way of life of the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest.
Buffet lunch included at the Lodge
The afternoon will be dedicated to meetings, with the presentation of a community and its inhabitants. The idea is to share their way of life, with two highlights, the blowgun, a hunting weapon, and the chocolate extracted from their jungle plantations.
Dinner included.
Accommodation at the Lodge
Canoe rides / 2 hours of walking – Altitude 600 m
Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Lunch and dinner ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance fee
Day 4: Amazon: Papallacta Hot Springs – Quito
Breakfast at the Lodge
Departure to Papallacta, where we will take the time to enjoy the hot springs.
Lunch on your own
Continuation towards Quito. Installation in the hotel.
Dinner on your own
Hotel accommodation
Driving time 220 km – 5h15 - Altitude 2850 m
Services included: ☒ Transfer ☒ English-speaking guide ☒ Accommodation ☒ Entrance
Day 5: Quito Free Day Or Optional Activities In Quito Or Region De Los Lagos / Otavalo
Breakfast at the hotel
Free day or optional activities
Lunch and Dinner on your own
Hotel accommodation
Altitude 2850 m /
Services included: ☒ Accommodation
Day 6: Quito: Visit Of The Colonial City / Latacunga (Cotopaxi)
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
Day 7: Cotopaxi: Visit Of The Park And The Cotopaxi Volcano / 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
Day 8: Riobamba – Balbanera – Alausí –Ingapirca Cuenca
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
Day 9: Cuenca: City Tour
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
Day 10: Cuenca: El Cajas National Park – Guayaquil – City Tour
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
Day 11: Guayaquil: Baltra (✈) / Arrival At Santa Cruz De Galapagos – Twin Craters And Turtle Ranch Excursion
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
Day 12: Santa Cruz / Galápagos: Optional Excursion To Tortuga Bay And Charles Darwin Station
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
Day 13: Santa Cruz / Galápagos: 1/2 Day Tour To Franklin Bay
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
Day 14: Santa Cruz / Galápagos – Guayaquil (✈) / Arrival In 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
Day 15: Guayaquil (✈) / Departure Transfer International Flight
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
