OTAVALO MARKET (8 hours)

SIB: Tuesday and Saturday                       

Pick-up Hours: 7:45 – 8:30am

Departure from Quito through the Panamericana North Highway.  Brief stop at Calderon, a town where the famous “masapan” dolls are made, we will continue passing through Guayllabamba town with its typical fruit cherimoyer, we will stop at the highway that conduces to Cayambe to admire and take pictures of the beautiful landscape and snow caped mountains of the zone, crossing the equatorial line at Cayambe we will pass by Guachala (used to be the Center of the world monument), before we head up to Otavalo we will make a stop at Mira Lago to take pictures of the beautiful San Pablo Lake.  The tour then continues to Otavalo, here the Otavaleños (natives) set up a market in which a bartering manner of shopping is taken place.  The market hosts a variety of different handcrafted items.  Continuing the trip, we will visit to the leather shopping stores at Cotacachi before returning to Quito through the Cajas-Tabacundo road.

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