Places:Cuenca
Activities: Venture into Cuenca and its Historical Center
Highlights: Visit Cuenca’s Historical Center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its cathedrals and plazas, stroll along the Tomebamba River, explore the Vega family’s ceramics business, and learn about the origins of the Panama Hat.
Places: Saraguro
Activities: Explore Saraguro culture
Highlights: Visit the Gera community, experience a spiritual cleansing, have an outstanding culinary experience at ShamuiCo, and watch how the traditional Saraguro woolen hat is fashioned.
Places: Gualaceo & Chordeleg
Activities: Discover Andean towns of artists and artisans
Highlights: Encounter luthiers who make unique guitars, jewelers who utilize the filigree technique, and a wool weaver at work in her Ikat workshop.
Places: El Cajas National Park
Activities: Enjoy a day out in nature, birdwatching, and incredible views of the lakes and landscapes in El Cajas.
Highlights: Hike to the Toreadora and Llavuico lake
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This small, secret rooftop of the restored Casa Gangotena mansion peers over Plaza San Francisco in the center of Quito’s colonial Old Town, the world’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Order a Cedrón Spritz, a refreshing mix of rum, lemon, sparkling wine, and fresh lemon verbena (cedrón) syrup and leaf, then revel in the mesmerizing, real-time montage of daily life in Ecuador’s capital as it parades past.
A Font of information, Klaus has spent decades in the field, leading tours in the Amazon, Andes and Galapagos Islands. He hung up his guiding boots a few years back and now creates itineraries for the tour operator, Metropolitan Touring. Adrift in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from mainland South America, Galapagos is one of the most biodiverse locales on Earth.
Santa Cruz II is a replacement for the much-loved Santa Cruz, which plied the waters of the Galapagos for 36 years. It is not a new ship; it was built in 2002 and sailed as Mare Australis under the Australis cruise brand, operating expedition cruises around Cape Horn and to Antarctica. Metropolitan Touring bought the ship in 2015 and completely refurbished it, launching it as Santa Cruz II in October 2015.
When this modern, minimalist, glass-walled jungle lodge opened in 2012, it changed the accommodation game in South America. Arquitect Alfredo Ribadeneira’s “protective cocoon” would impress in a modern city; in the depths of an Andean cloudforest, it is wild, audacious and beautiful. Though only 70 miles from Quito, Maspi Lodge sits in splendid isolation, perched on a cliff at the end of an unsealed road.
Itinerario de 5 días / 4 noches: Basado en la tarifa regular (4214 USD + impuestos por persona)
Itinerario de 7 días / 6 noches: Basado en la tarifa regular (5672 USD + impuestos por persona)
No reembolsable. Aplica únicamente para residentes ecuatorianos en nuevas reservas directas realizadas, hasta el 30 de junio del 2022, con un ejecutivo de ventas del hotel. Válido para estadías hasta el 31 de agosto de 2022. No puede ser combinada con otros descuentos, promociones u ofertas. El descuento no aplica para otros servicios. El precio no incluye recargo de combustible de $20 por noche de crucero.
