Day 1 Arriving Quito
On arrival you will be met and transferred to the group hotel in the centre of Quito. Overnight.
Day 2 Tour of the historic centre of Quito
Breakfast. The day to explore the historic beauty of the City. The active volcano Pichincha glowers over Quito, a dynamic city which, at 2,850m, is one of highest capital cities in the world. Quito is divided into two contrasting districts. The modern zone is characterised by towering glass buildings and houses banks, international companies, hotels, shops and restaurants, while the central colonial area where your hotel is located has well-conserved and recently spruced-up white-washed architecture, open air markets and graceful Spanish-style mansions and churches. Return back to hotel and Overnight.
Day 3 Travel to Riobamba via Cotopaxi National Park
After breakfast travel by road into the Avenue of the Volcanoes towards Cotopaxi National Park, dominated by the superbly photogenic volcano of the same name - a (very occasionally active) soaring peak of shimmering ice surrounded by rumpled skirts of highland moor with a tundra-like vegetation of altitude-resistant shrubs and flowers. After lunch, we continue onto Riobamba and Overnight.
Day 4 Devil's Nose train and Inca ruins of Ingapirca
Set off early morning for the small town of Alausi and one of South America's most iconic stretches of rail, the Devil's Nose that descends a near-vertical Andean mountainside via an impressive set of switchbacks. It's an ambitious feat of railway engineering, and as you weave alongside perilous drops on century-old tracks you may be reminded more of a rollercoaster ride than a traditional train journey. In the afternoon we continue on to the the ruins of Ingapirca, one of the most significant vestiges of the Inca empire to be found in Ecuador. Today the most striking building within the complex is the Temple of the Moon, with its curved stone walls enclosing a large sacred rock, the walls were constructed in the typical Inca style: chiselled to fit so precisely that no mortar was needed to fix them together. Travel onto Cuenca and overnight
Day 5 Tour of Cuenca
After breakfast, start the tour of Cuenca, set in the southern sierras at 2,550m, is a quintessential Spanish colonial city. You'll be able to admire the architecture during a morning tour of the city, and in the afternoon relax in one of many cafés and restaurants that line the pleasant squares. Overnight.
Day 6 Fly to the Quito
Today we head off to the airport for our flight to the Quito and fly back to home.
Duration – 05 Nights / 06 Days
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