14 DAY ANDEAN HIGHLAND BIKE TOUR

As with our 8-day program, this tour takes you biking in many different areas and landscapes within Ecuador, but maintaining a focus on the highland areas, from around 2400m and above. The program is designed to allow you 4-5 hours biking a day, however this is variable as being the highlands, hill climbing is a significant part of the days biking and different people will clearly manage this at different speeds.

This bike tour is designed to give you the opportunity to see a great deal of Ecuador, yet have the comfort of car transfers between biking sites of interest, helping to avoid biking on busy roads or through urban landscapes. As with all our tours, this bike tour will take you off the beaten track and introduce you to some of Ecuador's hidden treasures.

Each day, after completing the section, you and the bikes will be taken by jeep to your overnight hostel or hotel accommodation (we can arrange different hostel and hotel accommodation according to your needs). On two nights you will experience the great outdoors camping under starry skies with panoramic backdrops provided by Cotopaxi province.

Further details of the tour can be received upon written request, but to help wet your appetite here are the daily stages, with an approximation of the uphill, downhill and cycling split to be expected;


Day 1:
Quito
Transfer in, briefing, over night hotel

Day 2:
Ibarra
Jura Cruz - Ambuquí
50 km, average temp. 12º C, downhill 60%, cycling 30%, uphill 10%, over night hotel

Day 3:
Otavalo
Indian market visit, Mojanda - Malchingui
60 km, average temp. 12º C, downhill 70%, cycling 30%, over night hotel

Day 4:
Quito
Ecuadorian Center of the Earth museum visit, Calacalí - Tandayapa
50 km, average temp 14º C, downhill 60%, cycling 20%, uphill 10%, over night lodge

Day 5:
Cotopaxi
National Park
50 km, average temp. 10º C, downhill 30%, cycling 60%, uphill 10%, over night tents

Day 6:
Quilotoa
Quilotoa - Sigchos
60 km, average temp. 10º C, downhill 60%, cycling 40%, over night tents

Day 7:
Ambato
Indian market visit
Las Viñas - Patate
60 km, average temp 14º C, downhill 30%, cycling 60%, uphill 10%, over night hotel

Day 8:
Ambato
Quero - Huambaló
50 km, average temp 10º C, downhill 60%, cycling 30%, uphill 10%, over night hotel

Day 9:
Baños
Paztaza - El Triunfo
40 km, average temp 12º C, cycling 20%, uphill 80%, over night hotel

Day 10:
Riobamba
Chimborazo - El Cañon, hut visit (5000 m)
90 km, average temp 10º C, downhill 40%, cycling 55%, uphill 5%, over night hotel

Day 11:
Alausí
Rest day, Indian market visit, over night hotel


Day 12:
Cuenca
El Tambo - Ingapirca
40 km, average temp 12º C, downhill 30%, cycling 50%, uphill 20%, over night hotel

Day 13:
Cuenca
Rest day, transfer over night hotel

Day 14:
Quito
Transfer to Quito, Indian market visit, over night hotel

Day 15:
Quito

Our programs include:
Transport, meals, biking guide, campsite staff, activities as detailed in the program and bike equipment (you can bring your own equipment if preferred).

Next departures:
3rd to 16th June 2008, 2nd to 15th July 2008, 13th to 25th November 2008, and 1st to 15th December 2008.

For further details please contact us at; info@bikeclimbecuador.com

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