Full-Day Middle of the World Monument Tour from Quito
Full-Day Middle of the World Monument Tour from Quito
Quito, Ecuador
Experience Rating
8 hours (Approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English and 1 more
Overview
When the French Geodesic Mission surveyed the equator in 1739, they declared the spot of this monument outside Qutio as the Middle of the World. With this full-day tour from Quito, enjoy a day away from the city as you visit the Middle of the World monument, as well as the real Latitude Zero 787 feet away. You’ll have time to visit the Ethnographic Museum and the Inti Nan Museum.
Skip the line at the Middle of the World and Inti Nan Museum
Upgrade your day trip with lunch at a local restaurant
Views of the Pululahua Volcano on the road to Quito
Convenient pickup and drop-off at your hotel in Quito
What's Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private transportation
UNASUR (outside)
Tourist City Mitad del Mundo
Ethnographic Museum
Cultural interaction
Lunch with special restaurants 3, 4 and 5 stars (if option selected)
Pululahua
Inti Ñan Museum
Water bottle
Ticket UNASUR (optional internal tour)
Drinks
Departure & Return
Departure Point
Traveler pickup is offered Departure Point: Your Quito hotel zone Dates: Daily Return point: Returns to original departure point
Departure Time
8:00 AM
Return Details
Returns to original departure point
What To Expect
Itinerary
Stop At:
Mitad Del Mundo
Depart at 8:00am in front of your hotel with your friendly guide and private transportation.
The first stop will be the outside of the headquarters of UNASUR, the "Union of South American Nations", a modern building with extraordinary architectural attributes, with meeting places for conferences and international summits. Entering the seat is optional.
Continuing the tour, enter the tourist city of Mitad del Mundo, an architecturally colonial city of the time, the whole journey accompanied by joy and colorful by craft shops and local people. The key point is the central square where the church is based.
We complete this tour at Latitude '0' where we will enter the Monument to the Middle of the World, built after the French Geodesic Mission in the eighteenth century showing the calculation and line crossing of the hemisphere. Take a picture and have the memory of one of the places in the world you must know.
After this we will enter the Ethnographic Museum located inside the monument, where you can learn about the 9 stories that reflect multiculturalism and diversity of indigenous nationalities of our wonderful Ecuador. We end this part of the tour at the viewpoint of the monument which reflects a breathtaking and unmissable view.
After this tour we will have lunch based on the tour option chosen you have selected. Visitors who booked without lunch can choose between a wide variety of restaurants located outside the tourist town, always accompanied by our guide.
Then we head to the dazzling Pululahua volcano, dormant for thousands of years with its crater now quiet and perennially dampened by fog. This is a magnetic place to explore thousands of plant species and observe a big variety of birds, mammals and insects. In its viewpoint you can shop multiple representative crafts of the area.
A unique interactive museum, located at the exact point of Ecuador. Laughter, unique experiences with the interaction of the museum guide who will thoroughly explain important features of latitude 0, as well as all the historical cultural features of Ecuador
We will the approach the Inti Nan museum and afterwards we will return back to the hotel in the afternoon!