Andes & Galapagos Tour

Arrival at Quito and transfer to your hotel.

Overnight in Quito

Tour first stop is at San Agustin Church and Convent. This beautiful, 17th century church and adjoining convent is one of the highest examples of Quito architecture and art. The second church you will stop by is Santo Domingo, filled with a variety of priceless Quito Colonial artworks.

Capped by green-and-gold domes, La Compañía de Jesús is Quito’s most ornate church and a standout among the baroque splendors of the Old Town. The afternoon excursion is to “Casa del Alabado”, housed in a stolid-looking colonial era home, this privately owned museum with contemporary-style displays showcases an impressive collection of pre-Columbian artifacts.

Overnight at selected hotel in Quito

Included: Breakfast

Your first stop will be the Quitsato Project, in Cayambe, right on the Equator. Here, you can learn the importance of the “Middle of the World” through star gazing and its relationship to certain archeological sites. Next, you move on to visit the community of Peguche. The people there are famous for making ponchos, tapestries, and other hand-made items, and you will learn about and get to see the process of their making.

Lunch will be served at one of the local ranches.

Overnight at selected hotel in Quito.

MIncluded: Breakfast and lunch.

Today you will visit the volcanic crater of Quilotoa with a serene mysterious looking green lake inside. The volcano's bowels 400 1312 ft. down head towards a deep ascending cut in the rim of the volcano right of the car park or we can walk around the total circumference of the rim.

Lunch at a local ranch.

Return to Quito.

Overnight in Quito.

Included: Breakfast and lunch.

This extraordinary group of 14 large islands and more than 60 small islands and islets sits 1000 kilometers off the Ecuadorian coast in the Pacific Ocean, forming the second largest marine reserve in the world. The islands are a real living laboratory and the planet’s most spectacular showcase of evolution.

The convergence of cold and warm ocean currents, the volcanic and geological structure of the islands, and their isolation in the middle of the ocean has turned them into a site of extraordinary biodiversity where several unique species can be found, for example the famous marine iguanas, Galapagos tortoises, and the 13 varieties of Darwin’s finches that are living examples of biological adaptation. During your 7 nights stay at the islands, you will enjoy this natural paradise, the so-called showcase of evolution.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Meals included: breakfast.

You will arrive in the city of Guayaquil and taken from the airport to the hotel.

Panoramic city tour.

Overnight in selected hotel in Guayaquil.

Transfer from the hotel to the airport for you international flight home.