two week ecuador mountain bike tour
BRIEF ITINERARY FOR OUR FOURTEEN-DAY TOUR
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 DAY 1: CITY TOUR IN QUITO AND A LOOK AT THE BIKES TO GET READY. YOU MAY CERTAINLY BRING YOUR OWN IF YOU PREFER.
- DAY 2: DRIVING AND BIKING NORTH TO OTAVALO. AFTERNOON AT CUICOCHA LAGOON AND BIKE ride BACK TO OTAVALO.
- DAY 3: mountain BIKING NORTH ON THE FORMER PANAMERICAN highway TO IBARRA. AFTERNOON AT THE MARKET IN OTAVALO.
- DAY 4: LONG BIKE RIDE TO the PAPALLACTA HOTSPRINGS.
- DAY 5: DOWN HILL bike RIDE INTO THE JUNGLE.
- DAY 6: FREE DAY or a CANOE AND HIKING TOUR WITH A LOCAL GUIDE.
- DAY 7: BIKING OUT OF THE JUNGLE TO THE TOWN OF BAÑOS.
- DAY 8: RAFTING, BIKING OR HIKING IN THE banos AREA.
- DAY 9: DRIVING AND mountain BIKING TO the city of RIOBAMBA.
- DAY 10: DOWN HILL biking FROM CHIMBORAZO (the highest mountain in ecuador) TO AMBATO.
- DAY 11: DOWN HILL RIDE in cotopaxi national park.
- DAY 12: DRIVING AND BIKING TO THE CRATER OF QUILOTOA VOLCANO.
- DAY 13: DRIVING AND BIKING BACK TO QUITO.
- DAY 14: CYCLING AROUND PICHINCHA VOLCANO AND A VISIT TO "MITAD DEL MUNDO" (equatorial line).
FROM HERE, IT IS UP TO YOU TO FLY BACK HOME OR FLY TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS OR ENJOY THE NICE WARM WATER OF THE ECUADORIAN BEACHES.
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