Day 1 · Quito
Arrive in Quito
A local guide meets you at Mariscal Sucre airport and travels with you to your hotel, ready to answer questions about Ecuador. The rest of the day is free.
6 days · 5 nights
Colonial Quito, an Andean market, a snow-capped volcano and a cloud forest, all from one hotel.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesStay five nights in Quito and set out each day in a different direction. See the colonial old town and the equator, go north to Otavalo market and the crater lake of Cuicocha, south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes to Cotopaxi, and west into the cloud forest at Mindo.
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 to answer questions about Ecuador. The rest of the day is free.
Day 2 · Quito
Ride the Quito Metro into the historic centre with your group. Walk Independence Square, visit La Compañía de Jesús and stop for a short tasting of single-origin chocolate, then head north to the Intiñan Museum to stand on the equator.
Otavalo and Cuicocha
Day 3 · Otavalo and Cuicocha
Stop at the Quitsato sundial on the equator and taste crisp bizcochos at a museum in Cayambe devoted to them and to the agave plant. Spend time at the Otavalo market among textiles, hats and jewellery, then finish at Cuicocha, a crater lake with two green islets.
Cotopaxi
Day 4 · Cotopaxi
Leave early down the Avenue of the Volcanoes to the park's interpretation centre. Depending on the weather and the group, walk up towards the José Rivas Refuge or around Limpiopungo Lagoon, where the snow-capped volcano is often mirrored in the water.
Mindo
Day 5 · Mindo
Visit a butterfly farm, then take a guided walk through the cloud forest looking for birds and orchids. The day ends at an artisan chocolate maker with a tasting.
Quito
Day 6 · 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 · 5 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.
Stay five nights in Quito and set out each day in a different direction. See the colonial old town and the equator, go north to Otavalo market and the crater lake of Cuicocha, south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes to Cotopaxi, and west into the cloud forest at Mindo.
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 | Puerto Ayora · Isabela
Private tour | 8 days | Quito · Cotopaxi · Guayaquil
Expedition cruise | 9 days | Guayaquil · San Cristóbal · Puerto Ayora
River and ocean cruise | 9 days | Quito · San Cristóbal · North Seymour Island
