Day 1 · Quito
Arrive in Quito
A local guide meets you at Mariscal Sucre airport and travels with you to your hotel, ready with tips and answers about Ecuador. The rest of the day is free.
3 days · 2 nights
A short stay in the Andean capital, from gilded churches to a foot in each hemisphere.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA compact city break with one full guided day at its centre. Ride the metro into the colonial old town, step inside La Compañía de Jesús and taste Ecuadorian chocolate, then head north to stand on the equator at the Intiñan Museum.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Quito
Day 1 · Quito
A local guide meets you at Mariscal Sucre airport and travels with you to your hotel, ready with tips and answers about Ecuador. The rest of the day is free.
Day 2 · Quito
Join your group and ride the Quito Metro into the historic centre. Walk Independence Square, visit La Compañía de Jesús and stop for a short guided tasting of single-origin chocolate. In the afternoon, continue north to the Intiñan Museum on the equator for Andean culture and a few curious experiments on the line itself.
Day 3 · Quito
Breakfast at the hotel, then a driver collects you for the transfer to the airport.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Quito · 2 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Ecuador
8 days · 7 nights
Quito → Cotopaxi → Baños → Riobamba → Cuenca → Guayaquil
Begin in Quito and travel south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes with your own driver and guide, from Cotopaxi and the Quilotoa crater to the waterfalls of Baños and the high slopes of Chimborazo. The second half takes in the Inca site of Ingapirca, colonial Cuenca and the lakes of Cajas before a long descent to Guayaquil.
Ecuador
6 days · 5 nights
Puerto Ayora → Isabela → Puerto Ayora
Land on Baltra and spend your first night on Santa Cruz after meeting giant tortoises in the highlands. Cross by speedboat to Isabela for two nights of snorkelling, wetlands and a long walk to the Sierra Negra crater, then return to Santa Cruz for a free day and a boat trip to one of the uninhabited islands.
Ecuador
9 days · 8 nights
Guayaquil → San Cristóbal → Española → Floreana → Santa Cruz → Bartolomé Island → North Seymour → San Cristóbal
You fly from Guayaquil to San Cristóbal and board your small yacht for Kicker Rock, Cerro Brujo and the booby colonies at Punta Pitt. The route then runs south to Española and Floreana, back to Santa Cruz for giant tortoises, and on to Bartolomé's Pinnacle Rock. South Plaza and North Seymour bring land iguanas and frigatebirds before you head home.
A compact city break with one full guided day at its centre. Ride the metro into the colonial old town, step inside La Compañía de Jesús and taste Ecuadorian chocolate, then head north to stand on the equator at the Intiñan Museum.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Ecuador, closest in length first.
Small group tour | 6 days | Quito
Small group tour | 6 days | Puerto Ayora · Isabela
Private tour | 8 days | Quito · Cotopaxi · Guayaquil
Expedition cruise | 9 days | Guayaquil · San Cristóbal · Puerto Ayora
