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Friendly folks, good food, and cheap prices for most things.
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to many pick-pockets
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An authentic, unspoiled urban community
169 Reviews Construction of La Merced started in 1701 and the church was inaugurated in 1747. There had been an earlier church at the same site, but it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1660. Beside La Merced there is a small square from which you will get a nice view of the whitewashed church. The tower, with...
26 Reviews Take a short trip out of downtown Quito to mitad del mundo ... the Equator! We took a blue line public bus for $0.80 each way and it was a harrowing 1 hour journey with crazy drivers, but we survived and it was a fun adventure! Be sure to visit the museum next door to the official monument (photo...
44 Reviews Museo Nacional del Banco Central is situated in a large round building in the south end of Mariscal, in Parque Arbolito. It is a great museum displaying many masterpieces of Ecuadorian pre-Colombian pottery and paintings from different periods. It is absolutely worth a visit. I liked the...
25 Reviews El Panecillo, which means the Little Bread Loaf, is a small round hill south of Centro Histórico. On top of El Panecillo there is a big statue of La Virgen de Quito. The statue has got wings like an angel and a crown of stars above the head. She is standing on a dragon on top of a globe. There is an...
9 Reviews On weekends, El Ejido becomes the sight of a large outdoor market featuring handicrafts typical of Ecuador. Everything here is the typical sort of tourist souvenir that you might expect from the country, ranging from small oil paintings of native scenes to dolls, textiles, butterflies and insects...
MalenaN Says: Teatro Sucre is a large beautiful building standing on the southwest side of Plaza del Teatro. It was constructed in 1878 and has a white façade with arches, columns and a balcony. On the fries above the balcony there are figures of Greek muses. The theatre opened up again...
6 Reviews and 81 Opinions I knew this hotel as the Sheraton Quito, but I suppose that it was, at least at one time, a Four...
4 Reviews and 229 Opinions Traveled thur Quito on a Eco Tourism trip. The Marriott was unforgetable. Beautiful hotel in every...
More restaurants in the Archbishop’s Palace
MalenaN Says: Besides Ceviches Pedro y Pablo I ate at three other restaurants in the Archbishop’s Palace. As I didn’t want to walk around in empty streets after dark in Quito’s Centro Histórico the Archbishop’s Palace was a convenient place for me to eat dinner at, because between Plaza...
Motes la Magdalena: great mall food
b1bob Says: Motes de Magdalena is probably the best mall food I've had in the 6 years since I had bife de chorizo at the Galeria Pacifico in Buenos Aires. I'm sure this is a national chain appearing in similar upmarket shopping malls and maybe even freestanding locations in town. There...
MalenaN Says: On Espejo, down from Plaza Grande, there are three neighbouring restaurants with outdoor tables on the pedestrian street. It was a nice day and I wanted to sit outside eating lunch, so I headed here. I found a table at the restaurant advertising almuerzos (lunches) for $2...
Dirty Sanchez: Something Special
desozi Says: Dirty Sanchez is unique in the Mariscal area of Quito - or of whole Ecuador. They have Good Music (not just the same *** they play everywhere else), Excelent Cocktails (get a recommendation from the bartender), very Friendly service and last but not least nice Prices. They...
MalenaN Says: The Metrobus, Ecovía and Trole are three bus routes running in a south - north direction through Quito. They stop at special stations with a raised platform. They drive in their own car-free lane so they are not held up in traffic jams, which makes them a fast and popular...
From Quito to La Mitad del Mundo, and back
MalenaN Says: La Mitad del Mundo is situated in San Antonio, 22km north of Quito, and to go there I had to take the Metrobus from La Marín to the end station Ofelia. I had used the Metrobus, but also Ecovía, several times during my visits in Quito but somehow I went to the wrong platform....
From Quito to Nanegal and Santa Lucia, and back
MalenaN Says: From La Marin in Quito I took the Metrobus ($0.25) to Ofelia. Ofelia is the end station of the Metrobus in north Quito and to go there took 35-40 minutes. At Ofelia I bought a ticket for the bus to Nanegal and it was $1.60 (August 2011). I had to wait a while for the bus,...
Confederate Books: read and trade...
elsadran Says: Should you need a good book for the road, a guidebook or a dictionary go to "Confederate books" in Mariscal. There is a large collection of English books new or used ones. Foreign books are generally very expensive in South America so if you need to buy something have a look...
SallyMander Says: Having traveled extensively through Central and South America, here is my summation of Quito:In many Latin American cities, including busy capitals, it is POSSIBLE that you CAN get robbed. In Quito, it is PROBABLE that you WILL be robbed, within your first three days.I am by...
mamush Says: Crime and robberies have increased so much on this city that it's impossible to even walk peacefully without constantly keeping an eye on every single thing around you, especially in the Mariscal area. This is one of Quito's most dangerous districts.Try to avoid this area,...
Ethnographic Museum at La Mitad del Mundo
MalenaN Says: Inside the 30m-high monument at La Mitad del Mundo there is an Ethnographic Museum. There are several floors with exhibitions of Ecuador’s different indigenous cultures. There are clothes, artefacts and photographs. It is well displayed and there are information posters in...
MalenaN Says: Is the real equator here?Around 200-300 metres from the La Mitad del Mundo complex is the outdoor museum Museo de Sitio Intiñan. Here you will once again be able to stand with one feet in each hemisphere, but it is said that this is the site of the real equator, measured...
MalenaN Says: Within the La Mitad Del Mundo tourist complex there are several restaurants, and they seem to be quite expensive. As I was hungry, but not yet ready to leave the complex to look for cheaper alternatives in the village, I decided to eat at one of the restaurants serving...
MalenaN Says: About 4km northwest of La Mitad del Mundo is the crater of the extinct volcano Pululahua. It is 2400 years since it last had an eruption. The crater is 5km across and about 400m deep. The soil in the crater is fertile and from the viewpoint you can see a patchwork of...
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A: I don't know how it is at the airport, but some hotels can store luggage for you. I stayed at Hotel Viena Internacional in Centro Histórico and while I was away for a few...
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