Adrenalin extreme tour

E Porvenir Hacienda Tour

The long time experience of our drivers enables you to enjoy Ecuador’s beautiful landscapes on our adventurous drives in a safe and fun way. The drives will be real challenges for the drivers, in order to master the off-road ways the group has to work together in a team. In the end you will enjoy a fun and challenging team adventure.

Day 1 : Arrival To Quito

Mariscal Sucre Airport | Quito - Ecuador

Upon arrival at Quito airport, you will meet your guide, he will transfer to your hotel. Situated in a circle of Andean peaks, Quito is the world’s second highest capital, with arguably one of the finest settings in the world.  Originally settled by the Quitu tribe in the first millennium, Quito was an important part of the Inca Empire, before being destroyed and re-founded by Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Benalcázar in 1534.

The colonial center – declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978 – is one of the largest and best preserved in Latin America. It is home to excellent museums, churches and art galleries.

Overnight: Quito

Meals: -/-/-

Day 2 : City Tour Six Senses

Tren Crucero | Food

Six Senses Tour Quito is a unique and innovative program that is fixed with psycho-sensorial experiences in which every perceptive human sense is involved. The Six Senses Tour Quito was born as an innovative experience program by Latin Trails, where Psychology and sensitive methods are combined; giving to our guests a complete life experience on ancient places and typical meals in the marvelous City of Quito. Enjoy a city tour of Quito, the first and only one,  combined with this wonderful experiences. You can check out among the fifty options in Quito Six Senses Tour 

Overnight: Quito

Meals: B/L/-

Day 3 : Cotopaxi Volcano

Cotopaxi Volcano | Ecuador

 

After breakfast around 07:30am you will be picked up by your english speaking driver guide at your hotel in Quito and drive to the southern Pichincha to get to the gates of the Cotopaxi volcano. The drive will approximately last 2 h. On the way we will meet llage Machachi. This drive will be on a easy road and the you can collect the first experiences of driving a four-wheel drive here. After this training the road leads us to 3.600 m altitude into the Ecuadorian paramo landscape.

Overnight: Cotopaxi Hacienda

Meals: B/L/D

Day 4 : Adventure 4x4

adventure-4x4

Today we get up really early to enjoy a typical breakfast in the Hacienda and to get ready for the adventurous drive to the Hacienda Yanahurco. Our drivers are experts for drives on unfixed roads and will give you important explanations and advice to driving on muddy ways and the best way to steer the cars in this environment – enjoy a real adventure today and work together as a team! The lodge is approximately 40 km away and the drive will take 2-4h. Upon arrival you can enjoy a delicious lunch at the Hacienda.

In this afternoon you can show off your learnt four-wheel driving skills on a 4km long, off-road course full of adrenalin – this difficult way is the hardest part of the tour. Later you will return to the Hacienda and have time to relax after this adventurous drive.

Overnight: Cotopaxi Hacienda

Meals: B/L/D

Day 5 : Horseback Riding In The Andes

horse-ride

After the breakfast at the hacienda we start a approximately 2 h horse ride into the beautiful landscape of the paramo with the Cotopaxi volcano in the background, passing many rivers, lakes and lagoons. During the ride you can observe the special wildlife (wild horses, cows, a vast variety bird species and many more) of the paramo.

We return to the Hacienda for lunch. Afterwards. we get ready to return to the Hacienda El Porvenir with the four-wheel drives. At arrival at the Hacienda you will have to say goodbye to the four-wheel drives and the drivers. Tomorrow you will continue with your English-speaking driver guide and his car.

The afternoon will be free, if you have enough energy left you can go for a mountain bike tour or a little trek on the paths around the Hacienda.

Overnight: Cotopaxi Hacienda

Meals:  B/L/D

Meals: B/L/D

Day 6 : Back To Quito

cienega

Unfortunately this fun and adrenalin loaded program in the beautiful wilderness of the majestic Cotopaxi already comes to an end. After breakfast we check out and visit the Cotopaxi national park with our English-speaking driverguide. On 5.897m over sea-level the perfect, snow covered peak of the volcano Cotopaxi raises into the sky. The Cotopaxi National park was founded 1975 to protect the volcano and the lakes around it. Let the nature of Ecuador’s most visited national park fascinate you. An impressive variety of animals, for example condors, pumas, Andean bears and foxes, orange headed owls, lamas, frogs, hummingbirds and many more live here in this 34.000 hectare big park. Also there are a huge number of lakes and mountains. Another highlight is the visit of the lagoon Limpiopungo, located at the feet of the impressive Rumiñahui volcano on 4757m.

After the visit of the national park we visit the famous Hacienda la Cienega for lunch, which already served the scientist Alexander von Humbolt as accommodation in 1802. While walking through the rooms and the gardens of the Hacienda you will feel like you have been set back to ancient times. After lunch you will return back to Quito with your guide.

Overnight: Quito

Meals: B/L/-

Day 7 : Transfer Out

The adventure ends. Transfer to the airport

Meals: B/-/-


Duration
7 Days