If you enjoy history and art, Quito is your perfect destination. Here you will find the least altered and largest Colonial Center in South America which has gone through a seven year $200 million renovation. Quito has a unique blend of modern and old with an offering of upscale hotels and fascinating old churches and monasteries which all served for the New York Times to name it as the place # 15 to go in 2008. As this was not enough, Quito was designated a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978. Together with Krakow, Quito was the first city to be honored with such a title.

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3.5 h

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Go to Quito City Tour

Just 30 kilometers from Quito you can find 'the middle of the world', 00'0'' latitude - the place where the Equator divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The city called "Mitad del Mundo" (Middle of the World) has been made into a replica of colonial Quito and offers the tourist a wide range of attractions such as the ethnographic museum, an art gallery, a bullfighting ring, handicraft stores, and a cockpit amongst other things. This place is much commercialized and has a large flow of visitors, especially at weekends. Visitors can also enjoy the whole range of local cuisine.

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5 h

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Go to Quito City Tour+Equatorial Line

Teleferico of Quito is a cable car located along the flanks of the Ruco Pichincha volcano. You can have a spectacular view not only of Quito but also of the surrounding mountains topped with snow and the whole natural and ecological environment of parts of the Sierra. Teleferico has 8 cabins, each one with a capacity of 6 passengers; it takes about 17 minutes to get to the top. The cable car rises from 2 950 meters to 4 100 meters above sea level.

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6 h

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Go to Quito City Tour+Teleferico

Quito has numerous interesting and fascinating museums that can accompany your city tour. Depending on your interests, art, history or religion, Quito has it all! You can choose one museum to accompany your tour and you will have an experience that you will never forget where you will experience Quito at its fullest. Among the most interesting museums, we can number: Casa Museo Maria Augusta Urrutia, Casa Benalcazar, San Francisco, Casa Sucre, Guayasamin, Museo Manuela Saenz, Museo de la Ciudad, Banco Central, Museo San Agustin and Kingman.

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6 h

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Go to Museum Tour

On this tour you can have an impressive view of the Avenue of Volcanoes. Pasochoa is an extinct volcano located in the Guayllabamba river basin in the Ecuadorean Andes. The current mountain form is a collapsed crater with a semicircular shape. This structure emerged approximately 100 thousand years ago due to an eruption which destroyed the crater and occidental slope of the previous volcanic cone. Lava and ash increased the fertility of the ground in the Pasochoa region, encouraging the growth of a vibrant forest ecosystem. .

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16

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8 h

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Go to Quito Pasochoa