Ruins, Hot Springs and Markets Tours
On this tours you will experience the highlands of Ecuador by visiting the Ecological Reserve of Cayambe Coca, a place with an extraordinary biodiversity surrounded by important volcanoes such as Cayambe (5,790 mts, 18,991.2 ft) and Puntas (4,452mts, 14,602.56 ft).
In this trip you can enjoy of archaeological sites like the Pre-Inca pyramids of Cochasqui, and the Quitoloma ruins. Besides, you will have the opportunity to travel to the unique and colourful Otavalo Market and the beautiful Cuicocha lake that was formed inside a crater of an active volcano surrounded by pristine native vegetation.
On the way back from Otavalo you will travel along the eastern slope of the Andes learning about the way of life of the local people and enjoying of a well conserved place, the Cayambe Coca ecological reserve. It is considered one of the best places for Birdwatching tours where you can find birds such as: Rufous - bellied Seedsnipe, Giant Conebil, Masked Mountain - Tanager and the endangered Andean Condor. At the end of the trip you will get to Papallacta Hot Springs, where you will have time to relax surrounded by the amazing paramo.