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Otavalo Slideshow
Top Hotels in Otavalo
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Casa Mojanda Otavalo
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Coraza Otavalo
8 reviews -
Pinsaqui Otavalo
59 reviews
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Hostal Maria Otavalo
1 review -
La Posada Del Quinde Otavalo
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Hotel Dona Esther Otavalo
39 reviews
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Vista del Mundo Hotel Resort & Spa Otavalo
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Hotel El Indio Inn Otavalo
13 reviews
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Hotel Santa Fe Otavalo
5 reviews
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Hotel Riviera-Sucre Otavalo
16 reviews
Otavalo
Travel Blogs from Otavalo, Ecuador
Otavalo
This is a top pick! ... time in Ecuador in one post. It started with an excellent long weekend spent with Rowena in the market town of Otavalo: * Walking around a beautiful volcanic crater lakes with Rowena and other volunteers. * Trapsing the streets and plazas of the ...
Australians, My first mistake, and Cuicocha
This is a top pick! ... a thick Australian accent. It turns out they were traveling around the world and were starting here in Ecuador where they had been taking spanish classes in Otavalo. They were to travel through much of South America, then up into parts of North America ...
La Ciudad Vieja y Otavalo
This is a top pick! ... . I stood up for the entire 2 hour ride, and ended up talking with a man named Carlos Guerrero who is from Cotacachi (near Otavalo). He had never left Ecuador in his life, but has relatives in the US. I would guess him to be in his late 30's or early ...
Chillinī with Mama and Papa Ruiz
This is a top pick! After spending a night in Quito post-Carnaval, we left for Otavalo, located north of Quito. Otavalo is one of the most famous destinations in Ecuador - and all of South America really - due to its huge Saturday market. The indigenous communities in ...
Please mourn the loss of Sara's iPod
This is a top pick! ... you who know me well, won't be surprised to see how I coped with this loss. We were on our way to Otavalo in Ecuador, the largest market in South America. This was a must-do for me, and I practically dragged Steve along with me, so ...
On the road to Columbia via Otavalo!
This is a top pick! ... us tomorrow. Drive northwards and stop at the equator line which is pretty non descript but have a photo anyway and then onto Otavalo which is a market town in the countryside. Wander into town where there is a smaller market on Friday as big one is ...
The Back Road to Otavalo
This is a top pick! ... over the cobblestone streets. By Friday evening we had finished out wanderings around this picturesque area of northern Ecuador and were back in Otavalo, ready for the big weekly event. If you can imagine Herbfest multiplied by fifty, then you might ...
Old Town Quito and Otavalo Part II
This is a top pick! ... Cabs around Quito: Usually about $2-5 Dinner at Cueva del Oso: About $15 total, an expensive meal for Ecuador Bus fromQuito to Otavalo and back: $2, 2 hours each way Ecomontes tour to Cuyabeno Rainforest: $160 Bus from Quito to Puente de Cuyabeno: ...
Puffing up Cotopaxi, shopping mad in Otavalo
This is a top pick! ... town and up to the plaza where the famous handicrafts market was to take place the next morning. We immediately liked Otavalo: it had a friendly country town feel, some ppretty buildings and was brimming with local Otavaleno Indians in traditional dress ...
The Mother of all markets!
This is a top pick! A long days travel from Mindo to Otavalo yesterday afternoon, but worth it! Up at 6am again this morning to see the famous cattle market- cows, pigs, sheep all being bought and sold in the most chaotic way! I guess they know what they were doing but it ...
Otavalo
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Otavalo in our entry from Quito, Ecuador entitled 'Land of the Volcanoes'. Cheers, K & ...
Otavalo Market
This is a top pick! ... , we got Carlos as our guide again. However there was no mention of UFOs on the tour this time! The Otavalo Market is Ecuador's most famous market, with vendors selling a wide variety of goods, from produce, animals, crafts, textiles, and ...
Otavalo, Quito, Baņos, Riobamba, Guayaquil
This is a top pick! Efficient Immigration (not!) We walk over the border from Colombia to Ecuador. Ecuadorian immigration has a really organised system whereby you have to queue up once to get a blank immigration form, and then queue up again in the same line, with the ...
Market hawkers
... about and they ended with 2 massive grey hawks one of which I think tried to make a break for it! Our other trip from Otavalo was to Lago Cuicocha, which is near to a small town, Cotacachi, just 30 minutes away. This is another massive crater lake ...
A Vanishing Breed
This is a top pick! ... has established a public school near the resort. ---------------- On Saturday night, we attended the social event of the weekend in Otavalo, the cockfights. We were able to find the arena by following the steady stream of young men with a chicken ...
Markets! Markets! Markets!
This is a top pick! The next day, we headed for the most famous market town in Ecuador - Otavalo! We timed it perfectly as Saturday is the main market day and the whole town was literally taken over with stall after stall of Otavaleņo Indians selling ponchos, cuddly ...
How many llamas can you fit in the back of a chevy
... cheap branded trainers, adidas trousers and mobile phone covers. This reflects the mix of traditional and modern that defines Otavalo. Men dressed in the traditional poncho and white cropped trousers and women with white embroidered blouses and black wrap ...
A La Orden
... my bag as the bus started moving. Again, it was a quick and pleasant ride. The bus stopped right by the entrance of Otavalo and several people exited, including us. It was Saturday and we went to Otavalo to take a lot around and shop in their ...
Otavalo, The largest saturday market!!
... forgot that we were getting off in Otavalo and when I looked out the window I noticed that I no longer saw signs that said Otavalo.....I told the attendant so he stopped the bus on the main highway, dropped us and our packs off on the side of the ...
Saturday Market
... weīd made through couchsurfing and grabbed a beer while chatting about our lives. He made some useful suggestions on places in Ecuador we should visit, including some places to go rock climbing. We made plans to meet up again to rock climb ...
Border Crossing - I would never be a drug smuggler
... less rugged and more gently rounded but no less beautiful. I departed my bus on the Pan American highway just outside Otavalo, quickly a taxi eyed me lugged down with baggage, coming to my rescue the taxi took me to my hotel, a beautiful ...
Farewall La Hesperia...monkeys at last!
... Andean Condor up close...that is one big bird!! The highlight of the weekend though has to be the impressive pies! Apparently Otavalo's famous for them...and we were not disappointed...we go all the way to Ecuador and end up spending our time writing ...
Otovalo and the Plaza de Ponchos
... smaller villages of Otavalo. They were staying at our hotel in Quito for a few days and they kindly helped organise our visit to Otavalo - from sorting out a driver to take us to the bus station in Quito to booking a nice hotel for us. Our bus journey to ...
Still not in Kansas..
... in my life seen anything like this. First of all, the Indians run the markets. Everywhere else in Ecuador these people are desperately poor. In Otavalo, they are rich because of these markets. The women wear these impossibly white, intricately woven ...
The best $4.00 I have ever spent...well so far!
Back in Quito after 4 amazing days in Otavalo and surrounding areas. The bus from Quito just costing $2 each way for a 2 hour journey. The best $4 I have spent so far... I stayed in the most fabulous and cheapest accomodation I have every stayed in ...
Boarder Crossing, Otavalo & Quito, Ecuador!
... the sack. Wednesday, 10 November 2010 Otavalo & Quito, Ecuador Woke up, enjoyed our hostel breakfast (the coffee didnīt even compare to that of Colombia), walked ...
Otavalo Trip
... 's club). We hopped on a bus out of Quito to Otavalo, did loads of shopping, then relaxed in this pleasant town. Nice change of pace from the big city life! After Otavalo we went on a hike around Lake Cuicocha, a nearby attraction. ...
Costing us a packet (Well a parcel anyway)
... - a lovely town and one that would have been easy to spend a few extra days in. Ecuador has been packed with beautiful lush green scenery and Otavalo was certainly no different! Here are the pictures... Next stop Colombia & the ...