ECUADOR AND GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 13 DAY PACKAGE

DAY 1: Assistance and transfer from airport to hotel in Quito. Hotels vary according to individual requests and include deluxe, first class, tourist superior or tourist class. Accommodations provided.

DAY 2: Departure from Quito. Visit Calderon with its typical ¨masapan¨ handicrafts. Visit Cayambe, Otavalo and its Indian market and Cotacachi where you will find leather goods. Also trek to Cuicocha Lake before the day is done. Dinner and accommodations.

DAY 3: After breakfast travel to the town of San Antonio de Ibarra, and see the locally made wood carvings. Continue on to Ibarra and Yahuarcocha Lake and the town of Peguche town. Return to Quito in the afternoon where dinner and accommodations will be offered.

DAY 4: Transfer from hotel to airport to take the flight to the Galapagos Islands.

M/Y (ESTRELLA DEL MAR cruise)

DAYS 4 through 11:

Monday: San Cristobal - Lobos I

Tuesday: Española-Punta Suárez-Gardner Bay

Wednesday: Floreana-Post Office Bay-Devil's Crown-Punta Cormorant

Thursday: Isabela-Puerto Villamil-Turtle Cove-Flamingos and Sharks Cove

Friday: Santa Cruz-Charles Darwin Station-Highlands

Saturday: North Seymour I- Bartolomew I

Sunday: Plazas I-Santa Fe I.

Monday: San Cristobal - Centro de Interpretación - Aeropuerto

DAY 11: Transfer from airport to hotel back from Galapagos. Dinner and accommodations provided.

DAY 12: City tour includes visits to residential neighborhoods at the northern part of the city. Starting with the Guapulo mirador and passing through 12 of October Avenue up to the Culture House and the Legislative Palace (Congress), the Basilica Church, where we will make a brief stop and then onto the San Juan Mirador, where you will be greeted by a view of beautiful Colonial Quito.

Visit the Independence Plaza to observe the Cathedral, the Government Palace, and the Archiepiscopal palace. We then will visit La Compañia Church where adornments and gold altars can be appreciated, a visit to the Sagrario Church and San Francisco (entrance fees not included).

Finally, we will be heading to the Panecillo Mirador (entrance fee is included), which provides a beautiful vista of both colonial and modern Quito, where great photographs can be taken.

DAY 13: Transfer from hotel to airport for departure flight.

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