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Sunshine Travel
Telefonos:
(+593) 02- 222 26 55
02- 254 52 42
09- 944 83 76
Other Highland Tours:
Cuenca Scenic Tour:
Cuenca is Ecuador's third largest city. Its friendly people, cobblestone streets, interesting museum and beautiful plazas, make it very special. You can visit the Museum of Modern Art, El Carmen de la Asunción Church, the Cathedrals, Plaza San Francisco. One of the highlights are the beautiful handicrafts that can be found throughout the city, including embroidered blouses, wool sweaters, gold and silver filigree jewelry and weaving with tie-dyed patterns called ikat. Cuenca also has a tradition in ceramics. Crafts and fresh products can be found on sale at the weekly Thursday fair, or the smaller Saturday market. At the end, a drive along the Tomebamba River will be included.
CUENCA
Is located in the valley of Guapondelig (plain as wide as the sky). Ecuadorians consider it the most beautiful city, a most peaceful and relaxing setting. It is considered as the third most important city in the country and UNESCO named her as a World Cultural Heritage Site, due to the perfect combination between old and modern architecture, its friendly people, cobblestone streets, interesting museum and beautiful plazas.
Cuenca
Gualaceo Valley Tour: This is a subtropical valley close to Cuenca and the valley of Gualaceo is famous for the production of peaches. There are beautiful surroundings and many little towns which are home to Ikat weavers, potters, Panama hat makers, and jewelers, which can be also visited. A trip to Chordeleg takes you through orchards and sugar cane plantations; it is a small town with many stores selling jewelry in gold and silver. Chordeleg is also known for its green and yellow pottery.
Cajas Ecological Reserve: Cajas is located 33 km (19 miles) northwest of Cuenca, at an altitude of 9,000 to 13,000 feet above sea level. It is well known for its flora, fauna, its variety of its 230 crystalline lakes of glacial origin. The highest point is reached on the road at Three Crosses where a river divides to flow the water divide of those than go to the Pacific and to the Atlantic.
Ingapirca Inca Fortress Tour:
Visit to Ingapirca Ruins, once occupied by the Cañari, which contains the best preserved Inca ruins in Ecuador. Its stone fortress with several doorways and stone walls perfectly fit together. The vast archeological complex of the ruins includes a roofless fortification, courtyards, terraces, temples, houses and a “castle”, possibly the “Temple of the Sun”. A museum is now open at the site, which contains both archeological and ethnographic displays as well as a scale model of the ruins. Additionally, there are exhibits of ceramics and jewelry of earlier cultures, and scraps of textiles found in a burial ground believed to have been from the Cañari period (500 years before the Incas).
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