CITY TOUR, EQUATORIAL MONUMENT (7 hours)

SIB: Daily                                                 

Pick-up Hours: 7:45 – 8:30am

We start with a panoramic route among the banking and financial areas, shopping malls and La Mariscal neighbourhood, where most of hotels are located.  We continue towards the Historical Centre of the City where the following attractions will be visited: “El Panecillo” (entrance included), beautiful place from where a sight of colonial and modern Quito will be taken; San Francisco and La Basilica churches; Plaza de la Independencia (Independence square), walking through the colonial streets we´ll find the Cathedral, the Government’s Palace and La Compañía Church, where adornments and gold altars can be appreciated.  (Church entrances are not included).

                      We will continue to the northern part of the city heading up to the “Middle of the World City” (entrance is included) where the monument that divides the Northern from the Southern Hemisphere will be observed. It was built during the XVII century when a French Expedition defined the precise location of the equatorial line. At the end, optional visit either to Intiñan or Ethnographic Museum (entrance is not included).

Pick up / Drop off Hotels:

— REINA ISABEL
— HOWARD JOHNSON
— AKROS
— MERCURE ALAMEDA
— NU HOUSE — HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS
— RADISSON
— HILTON COLON
— DANN CARLTON — SHERATON
— JW MARRIOTT
— SWISSOTEL
— LE PARC