Top Ecuador Food Tours - page 2

Enjoy this full-day tour of Otavalo Marketplace, the largest Indigenous market in Latin America. Departing Quito, you’ll travel to Otavalo Marketplace, to browse stalls for colorful, artisan souvenirs and delicious flavors. See, too, the famous equator monument and stop in Peguche to visit a waterfall and a local family to learn about local music.

Sample the artisanal food producers of Manta during this 6-hour exploration of the city’s chocolate and craft beer industries. Check out the plantations and growing facilities for Creole Cocoa and Rio Chico, learning about their cultivation of cacao beans and the chocolate making process. You’ll also get to visit nearby plantations of oranges, lemons and coconuts before heading to a local craft brewery for a tasting. This food-focused trip also includes a lunch of typical local cuisine, entrance fees and round-trip hotel transport.

Explore the rugged surroundings and stunning scenery of Cotopaxi National Park and Cotopaxi Volcano during this full-day trip. Enjoy a short hike into the Limpiopungo Valley before driving ever-higher into this sky-high region, stopping at the 15,800-foot (4830-meter) Padre Rivas Refuge. If you’re feeling up for it, you’ll continue to the 16,500-foot (5,050-meter) Cotopaxi Glacier. This Cotopaxi day trip also includes national park fees, a guide, bottled water, round-trip hotel transport and an optional trip upgrade with lunch.

The vineyard has an incredible view and a unique environment in Ecuador that allows us to learn about the wine making process in this country in the middle of the world. In this guided tour our sommelier will be teaching us the steps to make wine and the entire history behind the Dos Hemisferios project, who made it possible and a tour with tasting of the products created in the winery.

Venture into the cloud forest of Mindo on this private day trip from Quito with hotel pickup. Learn from a coffee-and-chocolate expert during visits to a cacao farm and coffee plantation. A guide explains chocolate making, followed by a tasting and themed savory lunch. Start the day with coffee and a stop at a hummingbird viewpoint in the Mindo Cloud Forest and finish with another flavorful tasting.

Loja, Ecuador has become a global award-winning producer of single source Arabica coffee considered to be the finest type of bean in the world. This tour hosted by a South American coffee grading expert and our fluent English/Spanish interpreter walks you through a lush organic coffee forest in the Andean mountains, takes you to a washed coffee and drying operation in a local fair trade growers’ collective, and ends at a wholesale tasting room with a professional tasting hosted by the grading expert. Experience what international importers experience when they visit Loja to shop for high-grade coffee specialty beans.

Guayaquil may be the labeled as the Pearl of the Pacific because of its beautiful coast, but it is also considered Ecuador’s party city. Embark on a vibrant cocktail tasting tour through Guayaquil’s nightlife and drink culture. This small-group walking tour explores Guayaquil’s safest, hip, and trendiest neighborhood, Puerto Santa Ana. Visit four top cocktail bars, uncover hidden gems, and sip on four exquisite craft cocktails with style.

Discover the amazingly diverse wildlife and scenic beauty of the cloud forests of Mindo during this full-day trip from Quito. This unique ecological area is known for having one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity anywhere on earth, including numerous exotic species of birds. During your excursion, stop by the Hummingbird Garden and walk into the forest to admire the beauty of this natural reserve before proceeding to Mindo. Choose from among a range of optional activities (at your own expense), including a visit to a chocolate factory, an orchid garden tour, ziplining, a bird-watching trip with a local expert, and much more.

At 2 hours from Quito is Mindo a locality with a subtropical climate that relaxes us on arrival, for the flora and fauna that surrounds it, above all it is famous for the large number of hummingbirds that we can find. Here we will know the elaboration of artisanal chocolate in Yumbos Chocolate.

Discover the best of Guayaquil and Ecuadorian cuisine, without having to book multiple tours, on this half-day small-group tour. Uncover the local heritage and history with a guide as you pass by key landmarks, including the San Pedro Cathedral and the Central Market, teeming with vendors. Cap off your experience with a traditional 3-course lunch and a drink at a well-regarded restaurant.

Escape the city for a full-day adventure in the Ecuadorian Andes on this private tour from Quito. Get your adrenaline pumping as you zipline through the Mindo Cloud Forest, sample coffee and chocolate on a tour of the El Quetzal Chocolate Factory, and walk along the equator line at the Mitad del Mundo. Tour includes lunch, hotel pickup, and all activities.

Discover the cuisine of one of Latin America's tastiest capitals, Quito, during this street food and drinks tour. Walk around the city with your guide and stop at several locally-known vendors to sample delicious Ecuadorian dishes. Explore the bohemian neighborhood of Guapolo and watch the sunset from a scenic viewpoint. Your night ends with a drink at a local speakeasy.

Mindo, just two hours from Quito, is a biodiverse cloud forest home to hundreds of bird and butterfly species. This full-day private tour includes a butterfly garden visit, a chocolate factory tour, and a cable car ride to waterfalls. Entrance fees and the cable car ride are not included. Enjoy personalized service with a private driver and guide, plus round-trip transport from your Quito hotel.

Visit the vineyard that made the impossible possible: create high quality wines in the middle of the world where we will learn about wine making, the history of the winery and how we managed to do the impossible in Ecuador.

Get a sense of the architecture, history, and culture of Quito during this private tour visiting the city’s top sights. Start with an exploration of the historic city center of this Ecuadorian capital, visiting its main Basilica, Independence Plaza, and many more colonial-era sites. Then take a trip aboard the Teleférico to a peak more than 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above the city for sublime views, finishing your day at ‘Mitad del Mundo,’ a monument marking where the earth’s equator splits the world into north and south.