Quito City Tour: Experience Culture, Local Food, and Best Weather in the Andes Mountains

Quito is a magnificent city and a fantastic place to visit in South America. Delve into its captivating culture, warm locals, delectable regional cuisine, and the most ideal climate in the Andes mountains.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • TeleferiQo Teleferico Quito - A great introduction of the Quito City is the Teleferico, the best viewerpoint of the capital. Our Private and personalized Quito Day Tour will start from your hotel at 09am. Our private transportation and National bilingual guide will pick you up from your location and then drive to the cable car north-west part of Quito. It will take us twenty minutes to get there. We will take the cable car and get to 4.050m. (13200ft) hiking trails, swing of the clouds, vegetation and fauna of the Andes Mountains are part of this great adventure. - Basilica del Voto Nacional - This is the best representation of the new gotic architecture stile in Quito. Our guide will give you an explanation of the exterior of this building and you’ll have opportinity to go up to the towers. Right there, an amazing view of Old town of Quito and other representative places of the city. - Quito Old Town - Well Conserved Historic Center in South America. The independence square, monuments, catholic buildings with different kind of art stiles, paintings, scultures, museums, colonial houses, are part of this heratige. A walking tour with our specialized guide will be the best opportunity to understand better history of the city and the country. We will suggest some great options for lunch in different restaurants with local cousine. - Intinan Museum - The main objective of Intiñan Museum is to rescue the ancestral worldview and the ethnological habitat of Mitad del Mundo. Some great experiments will help you to understand efects in the equator line. NOTE. Please bring your passport if you want to have a nice stamp of the Equator line.
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Certified national tour guide
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Admissions (teleferico 8.50usd, Basilica 3usd, compañía de Jesus Museum 5usd? Intiñan Museum 5usd)
  • Gratuities are welcome
Location
TeleferiQo Teleferico Quito
Fulgencio Araujo, Av. Occidental
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Cruiser772003
Jul 31, 2024
Wonderful fun knowledgable guide! - Pato was sooooo marvelous. Great sense of humor, knowledgable, fun. He modified plans according to our changing desires, fit right into out group, brought is to a great place to eat. Wonderful
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Anita_b
Jul 27, 2024
Quito highlights in a day - Great variety of experiences - middle of the world exhibit with fun and informative activities, cable car ride and short hike to enjoy the view, basilica tower climb, old town walk and chocolate tasting. Beautiful lunch location with a window seat overlooking the town square. Kathy really looked after us and we enjoyed the personal attention and insights from a Quito local.
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Danmf1505nu
Jul 20, 2024
Excellent couple experience! - Quito fell in love with us! The combination of history, nature and culture was unique. The visit to Half the World, the Cable Car, the Historic Center and the exquisite chocolate catering were unforgettable experiences. We thank you for making our trip a romantic adventure.
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Aespanajera
Jul 16, 2024
Excellent Day Tour of Quito - I had a wonderful experience on a day tour of Quito with driver Don Edu and Martial Guide. We visited many places but without feeling rushed. Martial was able to answer all my questions on many topics, history, plants, geography - very prepared and you can tell he takes pride in his work. If you have little time in Quito, this is a good tour to see the highlights, and both Guide and Driver were fantastic. I always felt safe and the parts where we went are very quiet, all without any problems.
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Adventure787272
Jul 15, 2024
Fantastic day around Quito - Galindo was our tour guide for the day and he did an outstanding job. He was prompt, courteous, and very knowledgeable. We really enjoyed the experiments at the equator and thought that the cloud forest was beautiful. We also shared a wonderful lunch and visited some beautiful churches in Quito. I highly recommend this tour, especially if you are short on time but want to catch the highlights around Quito.
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Faraway88968
Jul 14, 2024
More than expected from a day in Quito. - We only had one full day in Quito and wanted to explore as much as possible. Hence we chose this tour and we were not disappointed. We received a message the night before advising us our guide would be Galindo, also giving some helpful suggestions as to what to bring along. Galindo arrived at our hotel a few minutes early and we set off towards our first stop, the Teleferico. We expected amazing views over Quito but we didn’t expect how clearly we would be able to see the different neighbourhoods which Galindo then described and how we could see all the volcanos scattered along the mountain chains. Along the way we also met some llamas and swings which proved great photo opportunities. Next onto the equator line at the centre of the world where several fun experiments were demonstrated to us some of which required (minimal) participation. Honestly, even as a 53 year old it was cool to have one foot in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern. Then back into the old town for a fabulous lunch overlooking a square. Following this we explored churches, walking through roofs, climbing up towers, viewing amazing stain-glass windows and two squares. At the end we also managed a stop at a chocolate company where they informed us about their chocolate making process which ‘unfortunately’ involved tasting samples This has revolutionised our understanding of chocolate! Throughout the day, on the car journeys and at the sites Galindo imparted a huge amount of information on the eco systems, agriculture, flowers, trees and plants, the physical structure of Quito, Ecuador generally , the language and the culture. We know about the business of exporting roses, where Quito gets its water from and about why some horse breeds are small. Along the way he somehow found time to take us for some authentic ice cream …would heartily recommend passion fruit! We had a lot of fun (mum with and 18 year old daughter) and got much more out of our one day than we expected to. Thank you….Galindo!
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Quest08788594944
Jul 14, 2024
Excellent tour and service - We enjoyed our tour of Quito with Galindo. He was a very knowledgeable and friendly guide and he took us to a great restaurant location for lunch, overlooking the main square - be aware portion sizes are very big! We also appreciated his flexibility in enabling us to fit in a visit to a chocolate tasting at the end of our tour. All in all the tour and service was excellent
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Cynthia_r
Jul 13, 2024
Beautiful Quito - Your was incredible from start to finish! Excellent communication from our fantastic guide Pato as to what we would need for the day. His passion for the city of Quito was contagious and we fell in love with the city as well. Highly recommend this tour and Pato!
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559radud
Jul 12, 2024
Very funny and relaxing trip - Was a very pleasant trip, very professional and friendly guide for sure you have to do that as soon you reached the beautiful capital Quito!
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Cruiser48353783124
Jul 11, 2024
Amazing day in Quito - Our guide Pato was amazing from start to finish. His love for Quito and the highlands of Ecuador was apparent. He was so knowledgeable and kept our young boys engaged and entertained throughout the day. We highly recommend this experience!
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