Otavalo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I awoke in Quito feeling fresh as a dasiy and ready to enjoy the day. After a great breakfast at the hotel and a nice pedi with mom, we hailed a taxi to head to the bus, but the taxi driver offered us a good enough price for a ride the whole way, so we bit. Unfortunately, we only made it about halfway, and then the radiator hose broke. After a f...

After our time in the cloud forests of Mindo our next stop was Quito again - as this was literally an over night stay and we did nothing, this blog is about our next destination - the market town of Otavalo. Otavalo is a town 3 hours north of Quito and has the biggest craft market in Ecuador - the plan was to take this opportunity to buy souveni...

Vandaag zijn we met het openbare vervoer naar de Otavalo markt geweest . We vertrokken heel vroeg in de morgen , het was erg koud. De busreis van totaal 6 uur ( heen/terug ) was zeer comfortabel. Er werd zelfs een video film vertoond..Terwijl we naar de film keken, genoten we ook van de Andes panoramas en hielden wij ook naar de diepe ravijnen a...

The market in Otavalo has turned us all into pack donkeys...we are loaded up with rugs and paintings and all kinds of things to adorn homes we don`t even have....and that we now have to carry around in bulging backpacks...with 3 months still to go...fools! Ahh but the markets are wonderful. The beautiful indigenous people in their ponchos or bla...

As my time in Ecuador is coming to an end, I had to make sure that I made it to the biggest market town in Ecuador so this weekend I headed to Otavalo with a group of friends from Spanish School. For people with a shopping habit, Saturday in Otavalo is a dream come true! I have never been to such a huge craft market. I´m sure that there is more ...

We woke up early to a cool morning in Otavalo. We walked down firstly to the animal market on the outskirts of town. It was great to see all the local indigenous people in traditional dress leading, carrying and sometimes dragging all sorts of animals to (and from) the market. We saw loads of animals, including all sizes of pigs, chickens, cows,...

Two weeks ago, whilst eating burritos at some friends goodbye dinners, we weere approachd by Sherry, the owner of our local eatery, and asked to housesit for 2 weeks over christmas. After 10 mins of thinking about it the answer was an obvious YES. The establishment is called 'Casa de Frutas' and is situated in the centre of Otavalo. It has been ...

October 9th 2007 - Day 120 The next day we decided to take a trip North to the market town of Otavalo. The main market day is a Saturday so we missed that one, however there are markets on every day selling all sorts of local goodies from poncho's to rugs etc. The morning started off badly as is was still pouring down with rain but thankfully we...

We are presently in Otavalo which is 1 hour north of Quito (capital of Ecuador) and one hour south of the Columbia Border. This little town is home to one of the largest and most colorful craft markets in South America. We will spend a couple of days here before heading into Columbia. But more about Otavalo in a later entry. HOW DID WE GET HERE:...

While I was still in Intag volunteering for Zoobreviven, the indigenous groups started another roadblock against TLC (Tratado de Libre Comercio - Free Trade Agreement). I was surprised that it lasted more than one day, unlike the other roadblocks, but still figured it would be over soon. So I went to Otavalo, only two hours away from Quito, to w...