Trips to Ecuador

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- IBARRA, the White City. Of paved streets and colonial houses, Ibarra is one of the visited cities more in the north of the country. Its old helmet presents/displays constructions of a single plant, guinea fowl of target, that surround to the parks Moncayo and the Favor, very ornamental and taken care of well. In the Universities Catholic and of the North, as well as in the House of the Culture and the School of Architects, it is possible to visit exhibitions of art. Also there are museums with archaeological, numismatic, mineral, philatelic and paleontological samples, among others. The city counts on hotel infrastructure, bars and restaurants with typical food. Around Ibarra and in all the province of modern and old beautiful Imbabura there is hosterías, that welcome in the visitors in the beautiful corners of this part of the country.

- INDIGENOUS MARKETS. Imbabura is well-known mainly by its artisan markets. Most important he is the one of Otavalo, where every Saturday tens of communities in the Place of the Ponchos are congregated, to set out his textile work. Its technique for the elaboration of dresses, blankets and carpets comes from the time of the Colony. Also naïf, ceramics, accessories, jewels, purses make art… To the Southwest of Ibarra it is Cotacahi, well-known like the “Musical Capital of Ecuador”, rich in the elaboration of fine leather article preparations that are exhibited and sold in center in small and great stores of the town. The week ends are the best ones to know the art talabartería.

- ECOLOGICAL RESERVE COTACACHI-CAYAPAS. From the desert to the forest,
it constitutes a destiny forced for the tourist who enters itself in the $andes. To few minutes of Cotacachi, is the lagoon of Cuicocha (3,068 ms), important part of the Ecological Reserve Cotacachi-Cayapas. The strolls in boat around two small islands that are in the middle of this water formation allow to very know close by the flora and fauna of the sector, where there are colonies of birds. The protected area includes/understands, in addition, humid forests and deserts with species grasses, lianas and ferns.

- HOPE AND ZULETA. Located little distance of Ibarra, these populations are known by the ability of his wifves to make very fine multicoloured embroiderings. Also there are craftsmen who dedicate themselves to talabartería.

- TRADITIONS In tribute to the harvest and the Sun, the natives realize in different towns from Imbabura (and the country) several celebrations. One is the traditional Celebration of the Jora (first fortnight of September), when the drink of the region is prepared and consumed that is chicha of Jora, that it has as it bases seven maize species.

- GASTRONOMY the red meat and chicha of jora are tasted in all the typical restaurants of the province of Imbabura. Other plates are nogadas, the boiled must of blackberry, the ice creams of paila and the pasties of morocho.