The historic heart of Quito, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of South America’s largest intact colonial-era city centers. This special tour provides an opportunity to view this amazing area of baroque churches with elaborate facades, lovely squares, and streets with columned archways, all under the romantic glow of evening illumination. You’ll depart from your hotel in a private, air-conditioned vehicle accompanied by an English-speaking guide. After driving through Quito’s lovely night-time streets, enjoy a fine dinner with an excellent wine selection and a colonial atmosphere in one of the city’s finest traditional restaurants.

Ecuador, not surprisingly, is so named because the Equator, the imaginary line dividing the Northern from the Southern Hemisphere, runs right through the country. On this special tour, you’ll depart from your hotel in a private, air-conditioned vehicle accompanied by an English-speaking guide. Your destination is “La Mitad del Mundo,” a park and monument located precisely at latitude 0º 0º 0º, providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to straddle both hemispheres. The monument forms the focal point of a park and leisure area with gift shops and restaurants. The place where the complex is located was of great significance to the ancient people of Ecuador, who, based on their solar Andean Cosmo vision, were aware of the significance of the Equator many thousands of years ago. You’ll learn about this and much more when you visit the fascinating International Intiñan Museum to experience didactic phenomenons related to the center of the planet, and other curious subjects.