Quito Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I got myself a new roomie today. Rae from Harvey Bay. I was going to the National Museum Central Bank of Ecuador. The bank right before the independence from Spain started to place cultural assets in the bank vaults so that the history was kept in Ecuador. There is a great range in the Archaeology room of early Indian and Incas. A gold roo. with...

Tomorrow we go to the Galapagos! Bill is not feeling too well, so we need to get supplies for him and also we have decided we probably need at least a spare camera battery each. We head of in search to the New Town to find our goods. It ends up that the camera batteries are cheap, so I am a bit dubious that they will actually work. On the way ba...

San Diego

It is a church and a monastery constructed inside Quito's colonial downtown, on request of the villagers of San Diego in 1559 and was finished in 1625, after the renewed religious orders after the Trento's council. Father Bartolome Rubio was de director of the construction. Is has only one nave, with a brick dome, strong w...

Flanked by the Andes mountain range sandwiched by the western slopes of the Volcano Guagua Pichincha standing at a colossal 4,790 m with canyons on the eastern side the city sits inside a lengthy narrow basin valley forming a setting unparalleled by most cities in South America. It is also the highest capital after La Paz in Bolivia in this cont...

Hola Last day in South America. Landed at Santiago which is the PITS. No buses, no information no literature zilch not a thing except of course our phrase book. We were hassled by taxi drivers from the minute we landed at 6.30 and by 7.30 we caved in and got a cab into the city. Fortunately I had read an article on the plain about a new double d...

Week 4 already?! This past week was full of many very entertaining adventures, and some new pictures as well. I bought a new camera on Monday and so I have been able to take pictures of my home here in Sangolqui. Thursdays we tend to not have classes, which has given us the opportunity to explore places surrounding Sangolqui and Quito. This past...

Today was the first day of real classes, and they were really fun. It´s not as structured as I had anticipated, but the activities are varied and they make it fun. It´s a lot of conversation, and we read stories, play games, etc. We´re watching Maria Full of Grace in Spanish and then talking about it afterward. I´m learning tons of vocabulary, w...

On this beautiful sunny day, I crossed in to Ecuador and rolled across its namesake, the equator. This has been a desire of mine for years, to visit the Southern Hemisphere. Now that have done so, I can check off one more thing off my list of things to do. Now if only that list wouldn't continue to go exponentially. Actually, I take that back, ...

Hit a mall first thing to replace my sun glasses. It was like being in the US; many of the same stores, same appearance ... Bought a pair at the Sunglass Hut. Walked through a park, observing a local soccer game, around some neighborhoods. Fundacion Guayasamin A small museo featuring some interesting paintings by Oswaldo Guayasamin Museo Naciona...

After a lazy start to the day, Denis (the Slovak now studying and living in Germany), Chandler (an American), and I decided to do the only remaining 'touristy' thing in Quito and headed to the Mitad del Mundo (the Equator running through Ecuador). Allegedly, with some French scientists having miscalculated the exact point through which the Equat...