Ecuador: Andes and Otavalo

Extend your time in Ecuador with a visit to the Ecuadorian Highlands, where you’ll make your home for two nights at the gracious hacienda on a working family ranch. Surrounded by snow-capped mountains, you’ll go by horseback or foot on scenic trails to Condor Huasi, the country’s only authorized project for rehabilitation of the rare condors that can have wingspans up to 10 feet. You’ll see the birds and talk to the experts who care for them. And you’ll visit and shop Otavalo Market. It’s a treasury of Andean crafts and a close-up glimpse at the ancient local culture. You’ll also visit one of the last weavers of this art to see how he creates textiles on a typical loom that dates to the Incas.