COLONIAL QUITO & LUXURY ECOADVENTURE 6 days / 5 nights

This trip combines the city and some days to enjoy Eco activities at a luxury sophisticated modern-design hotel at a cloud forest.

Day 1:  Arrival at Quito International Airport – Hotel

• Transfer from airport to the hotel.

Day 2:  Middle of the World Monument – Colonial Quito

• After breakfast, departing from the hotel, 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 museum of the Ethnic groups of Ecuador.
• 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.
• Return to the hotel.  Dinner not included.

Day 3:  Quito – Chocó Forest – Mashpi Lodge

• After breakfast, we begging our trip to the North of the city, and make a stop at the Pululahua Vulcano to wonders with the sightseeing.  Then we continue the trip to the Choco forest and reaching the Mashpi Lodge, where the staff will welcome you.

Day 4:  Mashpi Lodge activities

• All activities are arranged in order to enjoy the nature in every step you take, watching beautiful landscapes and birds, hiking, night walks, refreshing at a waterfall, etc.

Day 5: Mashpi Lodge - Quito

• After lunch, we will return to Quito.
• All meals included at the lodge.
• At night, farewell dinner at a local restaurant.  Return to the hotel.

Day 6:  Hotel - Airport

• Transfer from the hotel to the airport.  End of the tour.