Tourists will be picked up at the hotel at the agreed time. After that will be moved to a ranch Cacao plantation where they will learn about the types of planting, a bit of history of the estate, will walk through the plantations and have the opportunity of making homemade chocolate. After the tour will receive a typical lunch made with ingredients from the farm. At the end of the tour visitors are transported back to their hotel.
Recorrido por las principales calles y avenidas de la ciudad, visita al parque Simón Bolívar, El Malecón 2000, los muelles y la Rotonda, con las estatuas de Bolívar y San Martín. Podrá visitar al barrio Colonial de Las Peñas, donde se podrá admirar su arquitectura en madera y donde muchas de sus casas son galerías de arte. Se apreciará una hermosa vista panorámica de Guayaquil y del Río Guayas desde el fuerte Santa Ana. Posteriormente se tomará una lancha para visitar el famoso Parque Histórico, una atracción temática que recrea y revive el Guayaquil de antaño, con sus personajes, tradiciones y arquitectura. No incluye entrada.
Traslados y entradas para admirar el ballet folclórico ''Jacchigua'' uno de los mejores de América Latina, quienes representan con su danza folklórica las tradiciones y costumbres de los pueblos indígenas del Ecuador, regreso al hotel.
The tour begins with a transfer to the village of San Bartolome where we visit the church, central park, a typical house in the area and their gardens full of medicinal plants. Taste a cup of coffee or aromatic waters from the garden of the house, accompanied by the "delicate" bread made from brown sugar.
During this tour we see straw hats being made and visit a small workshop of guitars.
Also we visit the Chordeleg, famous for its handicrafts in gold, silver, filigree, wood, ceramics, etc. We will visit the main square and have time for shopping.
Continuing the tour, we go to the canton of Gualaceo, where we visit two markets: fruit and typical food.
Have lunch at a beautiful old hacienda.
The tour ends with a visit to a craft workshop where they make the famous "Macanas" or houses, typical dress of our "Chola Cuencana" where artisans will explain the process of making these beautiful and unique fabrics.
A simple walk through the city is no longer enough. Explore each of its corners at your own pace from the your hotel stop or the nearest one, enjoying deeply those issues that are of your interest: music, theater, architecture, living cultures, cuisine, crafts, photography, shopping, tourist attractions and unique landscapes, but above all, to share the heritage of our people and unique experiences in our city, is the Gray Line proposal as your local expert .... Welcome to Quito City Explorer!
Each member of the Gray Line Team is a "Local Expert" in our destination, and a true representative of the cultural richness of the country, so we think that a native guide from our company would be irreplaceable by a pre-recorded audio system.
In 1 day: If you have little time, you can have a panoramic overview of the city without getting off the bus, starting and ending at the stop of your hotel or the nearest one, it takes about 4 hours. And if you have an extra time during the day, we recommend you also take the optional extension to the Equatorial Monument at 14:30 (Monday to Saturday).
If you have no time to enjoy the morning tour, we recommend taking the afternoon ( Monday to Saturday ) optional extension to the Middle of the World , and in the evening the night sightseeing tour of Quito starting at 18:30.
We started the tour at 09h30 from the lobby , to go to the Museum Intiñan where we can experience and really feel in the middle of the world , then we headed to the shops where we will visit "" Middle of the World "" and we see a representation of the cities of the colonial era in its architecture, also we see the monument that divides the Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere planet, where you can take pictures with one foot in each hemisphere . It was built in the XVIII century when a French Expedition defined the precise location of the line Ecuador that divides the world . Not included Entries: US $ 8.00 per person approx .
It is a tour where you will visit some points of interest: La Loberia, Love Canal and The Cracks. Tourists will visit the seal colony where usually there are some seals and power snorkel with them. Then visit the Love Canal, observe sharks and the cracks. For the activity of the cracks it is recommended rubber shoes as it is located in a rocky and eroded land.
We will board our original Trolley bus, a replica of the tram that circulated Quito last century, to reach the historic center, where we will make our first stop at the Mercado San Francisco, one of the oldest in the city, which keeps the charm, tradition and good taste of the typical markets, inherited from generation to generation; here you will be able to see the use of traditional Andean herbal medicine, and taste some freshly squeezed juices from a variety of fruit.
Then we visit the museum Casa del Alabado (admission included), dedicated to Pre-Columbian Art and Ecuadorian Archeology. We continue walking towards La Compañia Church (admission included), recognized for its adornments and golden altars. We will then reach the Plaza Grande, also known as Independence Square, surrounded by important traditional buildings of the city such as the Archbishop's Palace, where we will have a typical Ecuadorian homemade lunch, ending with a dessert hand made in the oldest cafe in the city "Heladeria San Agustin".
After lunch, we walk towards the traditional Calle La Ronda to tour their houses full of art, culture and crafty demonstrations, where we will see the various workshops of the ""Manos a la Ronda Project"" seeking to rescue the traditional crafts of “Escuela Quiteña”, and know closely the traditional processes of jewelry, ironwork, inlaid, headgear, tin, among others.
In this neighborhood we will find a space where characters recreate the colonial city and get tought traditional games of langsyne.
After the tour, those who wish can stay in the historic center, otherwise we will complement this local experience, by using public transportation to move north of the city.
You will be picked up at the hotel at the agreed time. After that will be transferred to the El Cajas National Park, where you can observe the natural beauty of its mountains, lakes and forest quinoa. If required, you can visit the Garden of the Virgin of Cajas, famous for the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to late 90s.
Enjoy a short walk along the Laguna La Toreadora and the visit to the bottom of the park, called Llaviucu, ideal place to observe birds is performed.After we will return to Cuenca.
San Cristobal has an area of 558 km² and its highest point rises to 730 meters above sea level. The capital of the archipelag , Puerto Baquerizo Moreno , lies at the southwestern end of the island .
At the top we can see the different species that live there, such as frigates, sea lions, Galapagos tortoises, red-footed boobies, blue-footed boobies, marine iguanas, dolphins and seagulls in the Galapagos. Its vegetation includes Calandrinia galapagosa, Lecocarpus Darwinii and trees such as Lignum vitae or Matazarna. En waters nearby are sharks, rays and lobsters.