Quick answer: The best things to do in Ecuador are exploring Quito’s Old Town, hiking Cotopaxi and Quilotoa, shopping at Otavalo market, birdwatching in Mindo, spending three to five days in the Cuyabeno Amazon, riding
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Quick answer: Ingapirca is Ecuador’s largest Inca site, built over an older Cañari settlement at 3,160 m in Cañar province. It is about 2 to 2.5 hours by bus from Cuenca ($3.50–4 each way). Entry
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Quick answer: Pucará de Rumicucho is a hilltop Inca site of five stone terraces in San Antonio de Pichincha, a few kilometers north of the Mitad del Mundo monument. Built around 1480–1500, it worked as
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