4 or 5-Day Tour Cuenca,Alausi,Baños,Quilotoa,Cotopaxi and Quito

Day 1 Cuenca - Alausi Village - Riobamba

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   Estacion Ferrocarril

   3 hours Admission ticket included

   07:00am- The guide will pick you up to travel to Alausi, there you will have a walking city tour around the village , you will visit the central park, the public market, the train station. During your trip from Cuenca you will enjoy beautiful Andean landscapes and some stops for phoptography.

2. 2

   Riobamba

   3 hours

   After this you will have time for lunch and then you will travel to Riobamba, on the road you´ll visit Balbanera Church (oldest church in Ecuador) and Colta Lagoon. You´ll stay overnight in an estate close to Riobamba.

Day 2 Riobamba - Baños de Agua Santa

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   Banos

   7 hours

   08:00am-On this day after breakfast you will go to the charming city of Baños to enjoy the famous “Av.  De las Cascadas”, after visiting the waterfall of Pailon del Diablo, you´ll ride on a cable car and enjoy the  adrenalin  that  offers  this  place,  then  you  will  go  until viewpoint  called  Casa  del  Arbol  and  optional  you´ll  take  the  “Swing  at  the  end  of  the world”,  then you  will  return to Baños to rest  and use  the facilities from  the hotel  or  if  you prefer you can take a massage (optional and extra charge).
   Overnight in Baños de Agua Santa

Day 3 Baños - Pujilí - Tigua - Quilotoa

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   Laguna Quilotoa

   8 hours Admission ticket included

   You´ll go to Pujili town, once there you'll visit the indigenous market here you will find a wonderful variety of fresh products that has been carefully cultivated by local farmers for sale at the market.  After discovering what sort of fruit trees and vegetables grow in Ecuador, then you´ll visit Tigua is a small community, most of the people  here  farm  the mountain  slopes  and  valleys,  herding  sheep  and  llamas  and  growing  their  crops,  it´s  a good  option  for  you  know  the  lifestyle  of  Andean  communities.  Finally, you will go to Quilotoa Lake, for many the most beautiful place in Ecuador, here you will walk to the bottom of the lake and for the return you can rent a horse to ascend. ($ 10). However if you prefer something easier you can walk a part of the trail around the rim of the crater.
   You will travel to Quilotoa to rest in your assigned hotel

Day 4 Pujili-Cotopaxi - Quito

1. 1

   Pujili

   3 hours

   After getting breakfast the guide and you travel to the north, on the way you will stop in a nice mirador to see the "Cañon del rio Toachi", then you will visit "Pujili Central Park", in this place you will see a nice architecture.
   After that you will travel to Cotopaxi NP.

2. 2

   Cotopaxi National Park

   2 hours

   After your first stop you will visit the Cotopaxi National Park, you will walk around the Limpiopungo Lake and if the weather is clear you will have time to enjoy the scenery of one of the highest volcanoes of Ecuador and one of the most active in the world.

3. 3

   Quito

   2 hours

   Arrive to Quito, and end of services.