JUNGLE GETAWAY

6 days / 5 nights

During this tour you will experience the getaway to the Amazon jungle. The landscape is amazing and you could appreciate the different changing vegetation crossing the mountains and getting to the border of the jungle. Once there, you will feel the nature, discover the variety of flora and fauna; for sure you will come back.

Day 1: Quito – Mitad del Mundo

• Departing from the hotel early in the morning, we begin the tour driving to the north of the city to visit the Equatorial monument “Mitad del Mundo” (Middle of the World), situated at 0^o0’0” latitude where the French Geodesic Expedition according to planet calculations, designated the center of the world.
• Visit the Intiñán Museum.
• After this visit, we will drive back to downtown Quito and stop at the Teleferico cable car to have a wonderful sightseeing of the city at the top.
• For lunch we will have a typical delicious menu at a restaurant in the old city, and then we will go to visit the colonial site of Quito and its churches and cathedrals: the gothic Basilica, the Compañía de Jesús, the Convent of San Francisco, among others.
• We will visit the Plaza Grande where is located the Presidential Palace, the Major’s Office, the Cathedral, and the Archbishop Palace.
• Back to the hotel.
• Meals included: lunch

Day 2: Quito – Papallacta - Tena

• After breakfast, on our way to the jungle, we will make a stop to Papallacta springs to enjoy of a relax hot springs bath.
• After lunch (not included), we will continue our trip, enjoying the sightseeing through the green scenarios, until we reach an Amazon lodge, where you will began your jungle experience.
• Meals included: dinner

Day 3 – Day 4: Lodge

• Activities and excursions, educational treks, canoe rides, visit a native community.
• Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner

Day 5: Return to Quito

• After breakfast, we will begin the return to Quito, and back to the hotel.
• Free afternoon for relax.
• Meals included: breakfast.
• End of the tour.